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yes yes gay knights and nimona is trans but the soundtrack fucks thats the important part
#nimona#tbh they could have just made nimona trans instead of strongly imply it/use an allegory#she could have just been a trans shapeshifter#no more pussyfooting around just make your characters trans!#the soundtrack does go hard tho the main takeaway is new songs to your playlist imo#it was a lot of tropes i personally like demonisation of a creature who just wants to be loved#and found family#and my boy riz plays the main character so it was fun for me#but not life changing you know#maybe my standards are too high after across the spiderverse#which also does the pussyfooting now that i think about it#ramble over its a good movie
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The scene of Anakin turning back to the Light and saving Luke is such a beautiful scene in so many ways, but especially from a character standpoint.
If you look at Darth Vader just in the movies, he doesnāt do things without a plan. He has a step two. Even if his step two is immensely dumb, he always seems to at least have some form of an idea where he wants to end up; he has a point B heās trying to reach.
Part of what makes Vader a terrifying villain is that he always seems to anticipate what his opponent will do. He seems to know what theyāll do before they even think about what theyāll do. Very rarely is Darth Vader ever taken by surprise. Darth Vader is the character who proves how scary the Force can be. While Palpatine uses his Force lightning and can predict what his opponents will do, he never quite reaches the level Anakin is on, he never reaches that peak of knowing the next five steps his opponent is going to take, even as those next five steps change.
Palpatine doesnāt see Vader turning on him coming. Palpatine is not a Force user who can see the future, he uses the predictions Darth Plagueis made and he sticks to the outline provided by his former Master. He does everything he does and believes everything will be fine and has complete confidence in himself because Plagueis was just that good at predicting the future.
Darth Vader literally changes the future. He makes those predictions false. Him throwing Palpatine down a reactor shaft wasnāt in the books, him choosing his son wasnāt an option, the idea that a Sith lord as powerful as Darth Vader could turn back from the Dark Side is believed by the Jedi and Sith alike to be impossible. Darth Vader himself doesnāt even believe that he can turn back from the Dark Side. The only character who ever believes that Darth Vader can come back is Luke.
Darth Vader is fifteen steps ahead of his opponents. Itās very rare that he ever gets surprised. He always has a plan.
But when he saves Luke, he isnāt any of that. He leaps in without a plan, without any ideas of where heās goung. He doesnāt know what will happen except that heāll probably die. He doesnāt have a way out of this. This is the first time Anakin Skywalker ever does anything without already having a way out or immediately being able to come up with a way out.
Anakin was hotheaded and impulsive, yes, but Anakin from his introduction always has a plan B. And when he doesnāt have a plan B, he makes one. He is by far the most competent character in Star Wars, just from his ability to get himself and others out of trouble.
In the moment of turning back from the Dark, Anakin is listening to the Force. Heās listening to the Force as it tells him to save someone. The universal call to the Jedi, the inexplicable push that all Jedi feel and what ultimately led to the majority of Jedi dying, just because they couldnāt not listen when the Force told them to help. Anakin finally listens to it, finally answers it, he finally acts like a Jedi.
Thereās no step two. Thereās no way out. Doing this will end in his death. Darth Vader is already injured, and the only one who has the resources to put him back together is Sidious. To save Luke, Vader has to step into the lightning, which he knows all to well will ruin his suit. Choosing to save Luke is tantamount to choosing to die.
And he does it. He hesitates, but ultimately, he sacrifices himself for someone else. He goes in knowing that this wonāt end with him being able to get out. He has no way out. Thereās no plan B. His suit has gone from keeping him alive to being part of the reason heās dying. He takes off his helmet accepting that heāll die and being happy to die because heās finally at peace, he finally feels the warmth of the Force, he finally sees his son with his own eyes, his son is finally looking at him with nothing but trust and worry for his wellbeing, heās right where he wants to be.
He went from wanting to posess Luke to just being happy that Luke is there with him. That Luke is the one by his side when he dies, that heās dying on the same side as Luke ā Anakin is fine with this. Heās ready to die. Heās accepted it. Heās just happy that the last thing heāll see is the product of his and Padmeās love for each other.
The scenes of Anakin in Return of the Jedi are beautiful. The title āReturn of the Jediā is so great for this movie, itās perfect, okay, you donāt understand. It has so many meanings!! The Jedi returning could be referring to Luke, the main Jedi we follow, returning to the screen, or to Tatooine. It could be referring to the Jedi Order, since Luke takes on Yodaās request to share his knowledge with others and, with Sidious dead, the Jedi Order has functionally returned, even if it is only one member strong. It could refer to Yoda returning, it could refer to Obi-Wan returning.
Or, Return of the Jedi could be referring to Anakin. Anakin Skywalker, the son of the Force. Anakin Skywalker, the only character powerful enough to change the future itself, the only Sith Lord powerful enough to stop being a Sith Lord. Anakin Skywalker, who has always done impossible things, who has always performed impossible feats, who is himself impossible. And heās back. Heās returned. The Jedi returned.
#star wars#anakin skywalker#darth vader#luke skywalker#return of the jedi#star wars original trilogy#the inane ramblings of a madman#woke up thinkin about him#anakin my love my darling my blorbo#my baby my girl my boy my baby my dear my dearest darling my utmost affection#will stand here on my soapbox and say#the scene of vader turning on palpatine is the best scene ever made ever#itās dramatic itās daring itās beautiful itās meaningful itās amazing#itās a turning point that turns the entire galaxy on its head#the force is over there like a soccer mom screaming āfuck yeah thatās my boy!!!!ā#and i am right there beside it#anakin my darling youāre doing amazing youāre showstopping youāre perfect i love yo-#anyway star wars was pretty good huh#a okay movies if you ask me#iām so glad#that anakin killed palpatine#he def kill palps#nothing disproves that he killed palps#palps is dead for good and never coming back#anakin did great iām so proud of him#so glad palpatine is dead yup dead and gone no doubt#sequel? you mean the movies where the main antagonist#turned out to be a dry piece of toast?#yes of course i remember dryth toastatine in the sequels#do glad ani killed sidious so dryth toastatine could rise
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Rewatched the old guard with a friend today and can I just say how much I LOVE the romance in this movie?
It's very unobtrusive, it's cute and sweet, it's not annoying, it's just very well done.
I also love the lack of romance. There's almost nothing. Besides Joe and Nicky there's no romance.
I don't even think that one scene with Booker and Andy was supposed to be romantic. They've known each other for a long fucking time and they all care about each other and Andy thought she might have lost someone close to her. Her pressing her forehead to Brookers was incredibly moving in a way where you just know she's worried and she cares so deeply.
But then we move on and there's no other hints at romance for these two. At least i didn't see any tbh.
Another thing i want to point out- I don't know if I'd describe Joe and Nicky as gay- I'd just say they're queer to me. They love each other so much and the speech in the van that Joe gives? Beautiful. Fucking beautiful. You know how much they care about each other and not just because of the speech of course. There's plenty of moments in the movie where you see them move together in a certain way, where it's just so clear they know each other really well.
Idk. Its a movie I adore and I forgot how much i liked it.
Good action that's not interrupted by some silly romantic subplot for the main character, a romance on the side that's incredibly important for the characters but that's not annoying or forced-
Like idk. I want more movies like this. I want to see more movies where the romance isn't shoehorned in there just for the sake of having a romance. It's not there because it doesn't need to be there.
All of them are close to each other and they all care about each other and it doesn't need to be romantic. It's just so refreshing I think.
#okay ramble over#and dont get me wrong. the movie isnt perfect#but its exactly the type of a movie i want to see more of#i love andys relationship with all of them#andy and nile ESPECIALLY are such a good duo
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seeing havent seen challengers yet, but seeing ppl talking about it and literally 80% of the time the topic matter is about the music and ppl saying how bomb it is and loving it makes me feel like a proud parent seeing their child win some shitty 5th grade school competition (the child(ren) are trent reznor and atticus ross)
#not that their music is comparable to some shitty school competition like a potato sack race or smth#ITS JUST TO MAKE FUN OF MY PRIDE CONSIDERING THEYRE ADULTS OVER THE AGES OF 5O AND ARE AS OLD AS MY DAD#thats how u know that they're good fucking musicians#everything ive heard about the film is so funny to me#āthey(reznor and ross) said the film is sexy and so we were inā#āwhy are they all so sweaty what the fucjā#im gonna love that movie#sad i couldn't see it in an actual cinema</3#nine inch nails#trent reznor#atticus ross#the challengers#rumaiq rambles
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Continuity errors really are the bane of any long-running tv series huh
#little house on the prairie#i could throw other ones in too like h50 but lhotp is what ive been watching a bunch of lately so#tag rant incoming#because i will never not be irked by charles saying 'its a good thing laura and carrie didnt feel the same way' to albert about albert#coming to live with them when he gets upset over something that happened with james because MY MAN#LAURA DID IN FACT RESENT HIM BEING THERE AFTER A COUPLE MONTHS#(i mean rightfully so he was neglecting her but thats not the point here lol)#albert literally ran away over this. charles. charles PLEASE.#also the tv movies. they are not canon to me okay. he doesnt die young. he goes back years later as a doctor. the end.#(i dont even like the last season but thats still more canon to me than the movies lol)#(there are. many other things too. those are just the eps ive watched recently lol)#anyway#random ramblings#don't mind me
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All my mentally ill homies on their way to post about how Inside Out 2 is a Mastapiece
#its me this is about me#genuinely didnāt think Iād ever see such an accurate representation of how mental health problems can take over your life in the abscence of#good external support systems or mental regulatory methods#and from DISNEY Of All People??!?#movies#inside out 2#disney#rambles
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#God this episode is so so good.#Tachihara sweetie I'm sorry I never talk about you. I swear I love him so so much he's an amazing character. I love his story and conflictā#so much.#This arc is peak bsd writing / meta literature plot. The tearing page moment is insane. The sentiments expressed here are soā#deep and emotional. The theme of the ordinary man. God and the force of human spirit.#Fighting against one's own destiny and finding the reason for own's existence. It's all subjects that are so interesting to reflect overā#and they're elaborated on in such a cool and compelling way. I love Dazai's quote on the strength of humans whoā#āare caught in the tempest of contingency and screamā run and shed bloodā so much. It moves me deeply.#The animation was really neat. A lot of detailed sequences. The wind was animated beautifully. The colors were so pretty and the stainedā#glass visuals still go so hard.#Again I love Tachihara's conflict so much!!! I'm so into tachi/gin too... I know it's more of a Tachihara x oc since. Well.#We know little to nothing about Gin. But there's still so much spice to it... What do you MEAN Tachihara stabbed Gin !!!!!!#I'm so into the drama. AND the kind of relationship born from the big brother complexā¢ they both (may) share. AND the work partners.#AND the hiding their true identities to the other. How could I not love them...#Still believe season 4 should have ended where episode 11 ends but spreading it all in 12 episodes to allow it all better pacing.#I really think this season is great but the pacing really is its weakest point.#Of the sky casino arc they could have made a movie if they wanted to. Or just a cool arc at the start of season 5 that can work too!!#(((and not put ch 84-88 at only ep3. And then animate it grossly. But that's another talk.)))#Anyways 100000/10 what a good episode. This really was peak B/ungou Stray Dogs. And Akutagawa isn't even in it!!!#random rambles#Very hot take but I don't think Lucy should jump off a sky casino for a man. Sorry#My feelings for atsu/lucy are so fluctuating. I could write a whole other tags rant on it.#Actually I will
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Decided to log into twitter (hell) and outside of everything going to shit as always i found this piece of shit as my banner
I dont even remember when i made this but i do remember that i did and i remember how i made it
I saw a picture on twitter w some kind of caption and decided that i could make it look like a banner
i tried to add the fire flaming text that i saw on some reposted to twitter tumblr posts where someome makes a grammatical error and someone corrects them in a form of flaming (sometimes animated) text (never change guys, gals and all of you magnificent pals lol) but at the time i didnt know the website that you all used so i tried to improvise and google
I remember half way thru the making of this text being so upset that it looked like shit but after taking a break for 20 minutes i said "fuck it, it is way funnier this way" and i kinda glad that back then i decided to "fuck it we ball" it
It looks disgusting and i love it
#i unironically glad i found it bc it still holds up to me#not in a sense that its still THAT funny to me (i believe i made it when i was like when i was maybe 17-ish) but it feels kinda#nostalgic#some might say that its not nostalgic it all like ālol#you're 21 how tf can this shit be nostalgic to you#you still havent experienced x y and z you're a still young adult who havent decided what your future is you dont get to feel nostalgic#about your past outside of movies you watched when you were a child lolā#and i kinda disagree#bc at that point of my life i only started to figure myself out (hell i only ārecentlyā realised im nonbinary and multisexual)#and looking back at how i used to be#it definitely feels like ive made a lot of progress in self development and self improvement#and its kind of nostalgic for me to see my old abandoned twitter page (i should probably nuke it completely) and see that everything change#everyone learns#everyone becomes different#everything stays the same while also changing simultaneously#did i really got emotional over my old banner?#anyways whoever finds this post i kinda thank you for reading thru my schizophrenic post and i wish you a good day#juniper's tree branches#juniper stupider#ramblings#nonsense rumblings#will delete this cringe later when ill be embarrassed about it
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so i went to see The Wild Robot bc it's a holiday monday here and the theatre was p much empty, and hooo boy was that a lovely lil film and a good cathartic cry ā„ļø
#the wild robot#a++#def go see it if u were on the fence#its lovely#or rent it when it comes out idk#v sweet#idk how i feel about the fact that they're already planning a sequel bc like. we have too many subpar sequels already#its the current curse of hollywood / studios / movies (capitalism. its just unnecessary capitalism)#but tbh it was v well done so it mightttt actually be good if they do go thru w it#im open to the idea#i am. mostly bc the storyline - despite being p much finished - still felt v open by the end and there's def an opportunity to do more#*if* they do it right#and not just. use it as a blatant cash-grab w/o putting in the same amount of effort#we shall see i suppose#bc that movie was v well done and the effort put into it Shows#it was paced differently than i expected but over all was a good time#anyway im rambling now#it was a good movie and i cried at least 3 times (/positive)#that about sums it up
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I can't stop thinking about how close The Hunchback of Notre Dame was to being a good movie. It was on the cusp of being a truly transformative work that could have stood the test of time. And I can lament on and on about how well done certain aspects are, especially in regards to the two best songs Disney may have ever produced, "God Help the Outcasts" and "Hellfire"
I can go on and on about its amazing portrayal of the abuse of power, especially for religious figures; I can praise the way it portrays Catholic guilt and lust and manipulation and how those things relate to each other. I can applaud it's darker themes handled in an impactful yet not explicit way, including the ones after mentioned as well as murder and ableism and all other manner of things.
I can do that and I can praise that and those will always have a special place in my heart when I think about that movie, but none of that can change the fact that it completely mishandled the portrayal of Romani people. I would like to emphasize that Romani people have considered the word used throughout the movie as a slur at least 20ish years before that movie came out. It was well known. And yet they included it anyway, gratuitously at that. And even more so than that, because many people excuse that as being "time period accurate" (while I heavily disagree because time period accuracy really shouldn't be applied to slurs in a movie targeted towards children) even if that were an acceptable concession, they completely mishandled the representation of Romani people as a whole.
Esmeralda was "the good one", she was the one that changed the main cast's mind about Romani people as a whole. In theory that wouldn't be an issue if her character was used JUST as a way to expand Quasimodo's worldview. He had never met a romani person before, and his only opinions of that group of people came from count frollo's obviously prejudiced perspective. But they didn't do that. She was the only positively portrayed Romani person in that movie. When they go to the (I shit you fucking not) HIDDEN LAIR of alllll the other romani people, the characters are tied up and paraded around on their way to be murdered. Throughout all of this the Romani people in that place our portrayed as criminals, thieves, bandits, and people who revel in violence, which I don't have to say is pretty fucked up, yeah?? They completely dropped the ball and were very wishy-washy with their portrayal of Romani people, which completely undercut the message of the entire movie.
And I can also take the time to say that it could have been a much better movie if they had just changed a few things. If this movie wasn't targeted towards children, if the writers understood the weight and history behind the word used to refer to Romani people, if they had cut the romance, if they had portrayed Romani people in a better light, this movie COULD have been transcendent, could have been timeless.
But those are all ifs and coulds, and so instead I will mourn the movie for what it was and appreciate the parts of it that are good
#And it really sucks because this movie blew my mind as a kid with religious trauma#But this isn't a movie that you can recommend to people because it is so deeply flawed down to its core#disney#the hunchback of notre dame#cw religion#All of this rant and I didn't even get into the over-sexualization of esmerelda#Which is a major problem because it would make sense if it was just frollo#But the writers and the movie itself sexualizes her#And it's very obvious#And that is just one of the many tarnishes on what could have been a good movie#I haven't read the book but I am planning on it#And I'm sure that it comes with its own can of worms#rambles
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saw the five nights at fnaf movie šš what am I supposed to do now
#kinda sad cuz ive been waiting for this movie for years and now its over!!! itd weird#movie was good a little goofy but i liked it#rambling
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my future when it comes to still being Active on social media is teebeedee, but my main resolution for 2024 is like...be comfortable w/ being completely offline even if it's just for a day or a week.
#the good news is that i don't check sm during the am hours anymore (by that i mean like as soon as i wake up i still need to work#on being less online during the after hours aka anything later than 9-10pm ish)#BUT i've learned that being active hasn't made my ppl pleasing tendencies better and that there are many many things i need to like#work on far away from places like tumblr and The Big Four#(that being ig twitter still not calling it x fb and like...reddit#though tbf i haven't been ACTIVE active on twitter + fb for almost 4/5 years now so theres that#i still lurk the former when i'm feeling REAL bored but thats rare these days which is an improvement?#though i also have to work on doing shit that doesnt involve online brainrot 24/7 aka reading and writing and like...watching media that#isnt like...football (soccer 4 the us/canada/aus folks)#but lb ruined my love of film for a LONG long time bc it values getting the most pop review over idk actually loving movies#idk its just me rambling abt my relationship w/ sm and where it stands atm perdon sghdjfhj#the tl;dr is i need to shut up and log off when my body is telling me to stop gsbdhjfghjikejr#be quiet drea
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I WATCHED NIMONA!!! As someone who read the original nimona webcomic when it was updating (roughly a decade ago??) and was rly impacted by it, I was so excited to watch the film and... they did a really good job!!! it was so beautiful i cried omg... it's def worth a watch!! (long ramble under the cut BWAHA spoiler warning)
...and it was rly completely diff from the original comic but im not complaining?? like its a v loose movie adaptation and the plot/setup was v diff but still v well done... like the comic and movie r both good in their own right... & i laughed and cried a lot... i was surprised at the extent of some of the changes but the emotional parts hit hard(my eyes r swollen from crying) and it was written v well... and visually it's just gorgeous... my jaw kept dropping at the beautiful lighting, and they brought the futuristic medieval setting to life so well i could cryš
it's funny bc one of the main things i was afraid of was them changing nimona's backstory from the comic, bc even after a decade that's one of the things that stuck w me the most... i love nimona as a chara sm... I was so worried abt them changing it and... they ended up changing it completely... but it was actually really good?! like i cried so hard, it was well done... so I'm glad I didn't have to worry after all jdjfjdš„ŗ like they Did change it but both ver r good in their own right...
I understand that they had to rewrite the plot completely to fit within the time length of a single movie while still being a contained story, as is always the case w movie adaptations of books, graphic novels, etc which r much longer... Series have a chance to follow the source more closely but that just isnt the case w movies... and as far as movie adaptations go they did an amazing job!! I can rly appreciate both the comic and the movie as their own thing... and I rly liked some parts that were added to the movie, like ballister(blackheart)'s backstory in the beginning, and the addition of gloreth (and her relationship w nimona) was surprisingly compelling... And I really really love that they made Ballister and Goldenloin canon POC ššš like that made me so happy!!!ā¤ļøāš„ When i first saw the casting of riz ahmed and eugene lee i was sooo happy, i was like YAYY IDC IF THEY LOOK WHITE IM GONNA HC THEM AS POCš„° but the fact that i dont even have to hc bc its canon now... š„¹ SOUTH ASIAN/EAST ASIAN KINGSš... and they also didn't hold back with showing them openly as a gay couple... Even tho their dynamic changed a lot from the comic I rly appreciate that...
And there were things that I did miss from the webcomic, like the original setup with goldenloin and blackheart as staged nemesis, them being exes (and some time having passed since their graduation, so they're older, unlike in the movie when it just happened), etc. but the whole setup and plot and everything I completely understand why they had to change it to make it work/fit as a movie, so I get it... so not complaining there tbh bc they did what they had to do... But tbh... TBH... my one(1) complaint(/lh) w the movie... IS I REALLY MISS GOLDENLOIN'S BEAUTIFUL LONG HAIRšššš He would've looked so pretty with long golden locks in the movie artstyle, esp w the gorgeous lighting... glowing gold and flowing in the wind... And I think it would've fit perfectly well with the movie ver of his chara/lore too?? like the new lore of him being a descendant of Gloreth... I could imagine him growing out his hair and bleaching it blonde to fit the image/pressure of being a descendant of gloreth, and to look more flashy and heroic to the public (They did tone down his vanity a lot but im sure he still retains some of it... like he still has that pretty popular celebrity image)... And him having long hair doesnt contradict with him being asian too or the modern setting... modern asian men can and do have pretty long hairš Like he couldve still been Asian, just w long blonde hair... It doesn't contradict w his new personality either... And I wish they kept the golden color bc the white/silver makes him look less like a "goldenloin"... (i also love black/gold color combos personally lol)... And i just aldjskd can u imagine movie Ballister stroking Ambrosious's long hair affectionately... plsš„² WE COULD'VE HAD IT ALL... canon asian madeleine cookie qkjdksdj... I also do miss his original stupid vain arrogant himbo personality from the comic, but I understand why they changed it (for one, charas like that might start out obnoxious but then slowly develop and gain depth over the course of the story, but in a movie's short length, there's less time to slowly grow on ppl so it'd be easier to make them more likeable from the start... so like i get it.) but I think it would've been perfect if they just kept his long hair even w his new personalityšš LIKE IT WOULDVE BEEN 100000% PERFECT THEN!!! So that's literally my one lighthearted complaint/dissatisfaction w the movie LMFAO... I'd be happy if ppl draw fanart of movie ambrosious w long hair... TTwTT i miss it sm DKDJZ /end rant OVERALL I HAD A GOOD time ^^ LMFAO
#i dont wanna tag this bc i dont want it to show up in the tag orz#and the spoilers r under the cut so dont read it if u havent watched it#(not that anyone will read this anyway... i just wanted to rant LOL#nimona spoilers#i might do a more detailed ramble abt the contents of the movie later if i have energy#i love nimona herself as a chara sm tho... both the comic and movie ver#i adore herrrr shes so funny too like i think the jokes in the movie were actually better skjfd#i dont rmbr the specifics of the comic's jokes but the ones in the movie were def original (ie not in the comic) and funny hehe#shit i ranted more abt goldenloin than i thought. I SWEAR ITS NOT A BIG DEAL IM /LH#I do want to reread the comic now... I wonder if bookstores have it...#I can appreciate the movie as its own thing but its been over a decade so i want to read the comic again too#bc theyre both good in their own right!!#also its been so long that i prob forgot a lot of it
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girls when they finish watching dead poets society
#im unwell im so unwell#ok spoilers for anyone who hasnt seen this movie look away. im please at myself for predicting how neil would die#bc i only knew one of the boys would kill himself but from like the first 5 minutes i gathered it had to be neil then i think#during the play i thought he should shoot himself with a gun lo and behold#um well i feel shivery i have literal goosebumps. i want to text my best friend to never kill herself i want to cry#but also yall lied to me this movie isnt that gay. well it is gay but not because of neil and todd#its gay because its a movie about a group of people who are passionate for and live for the arts and poetry and literature and thats what#makes the movie gay. NOT ethan hawke and robert sean leonard's identical faces#i also thought it would be more sinister ie mr keating would be more like julian morrow from the secret history but no. so there is that#overall yeah this was totally worth procrastinating my editorial work#+ one last thing . when neil said i was good i was really good my hands flew to my face like oh he did that#he foreshadowed the foreshadowing and am i a huge sucker for this kind of thing#ok. ramble over goodbye im gonna go cry now#š«
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Thinking some fandom thoughts and then about ORV's portrayal of an author-character-reader relationship with the story and realising how....lacking at times the whole death of the author perspective on media can be.
(Turned out to be long and rambly so I put it under a cut. If you like death of the author, probably not for your worldview? Also, beware major ORV spoilers if you care about that)
Like, perhaps I'm misinterpreting something here, but in ORV, we had these three characters plus an entire system that gave us a look into the relationship between author/reader/character. And focusing on the Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja, and Yoo Joonghyuk dynamic, I realise that none of them really died. Pushing asides Joonghyuk and Dokja for the moment (as I am talking about death of the author), we have Han Sooyoung whose consciousness faded after finishing Ways of Survival.
However, I don't know if we can really call that death of the author, really. Because Sooyoung's whole purpose in writing ORV, her authorial intention, was to save Kim Dokja's life...which she DID. And even after the story left her hands, her intentions were imprinted into the story itself. Yes, Dokja realised that the system was lenient to him because of (spoiler alert) his status as the OD. But at the same time, I think that Han Sooyoung's authorial intent to keep Dokja alive with WoS can also be taken as a factor in the system's leniency towards our reader.
And just jumping from that back to my original point, while death of the author IS fun and can be awesome for reinterpreting stories that the author may have intended as problematic (to our modern standards, at least), to separate the actual story itself from its creator seems just....a tad disrespectful to the author.
Or maybe disrespectful isn't the right word. Like, say, even if said author is objectively the worst of humans, there remains the fact that the story in essence has part of them embedded into it. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, to only give "morally okay" writers the allowance of people who put a part of themselves in their works. Any writer, even those who are writing for money imo, can't help but put part of their own selves into their story...and to separate the story from the author just because we hate the author or hate their beliefs seems a bit counter-productive. You can't just say, after all, that this author's vulnerability in their writing is okay because it's Correct but this other guy's vulnerability should be ignored because it's chalk full of Problematic Content.
But again, that's not to justify authors you dislike or the deeply wrong messages implied in their works. Especially those that could easily be shooed away by employing death of the author. But I think I'd consider fanfic or analyses that ignore authorial intent and their message to be something...new entirely? (Best way I can say it is something something death of an author employed to help the reader create their own narrative inspired by someone else's story rather than it being used to ignore author intent and claim our interpretation is what canon actually meant).
I think there's a saying in music as well as writing that you could play the same exact score or write the same story, it's just that things will come out different depending on the player or writer. (That's not a perfect comparison because the player/musician who WROTE the score could be considered a reader/author relationship...the point is more that the same thing will look different in the hands of different people. And that just as the reader will interpret something in their own way when reading/re-reading (another ORV reference), the author also has placed in their own interpretation and intent in that own work...which should at worst be respected because they DID make that content (and then we proceed to brutally revise it to make something we like better xD) or at best be taken as "word of god" for lack of a better term)
Not sure if any of this makes sense, and I definitely don't have any factual evidence to back up this opinion, but it was just something I was thinking of.
TL:dR? Death of the author is FUN and actually pretty cool but I think the things coming out of it are new(ish) things/works entirely, and og author's beliefs/intentions are important to consider for that text they wrote in of itself.
#honestly this thought came from scrolling through the narnia tag and feeling slight despair over movies vs book#and also a bit of a surprise at how MANY people still believe in the problem of susan....like i thought we were past that?#and how many people dont seem to get or like that cs lewis' christianity deeply inspired it#or how much historical and cultural context we might need to understand some of the choices#like the pevensies whole isekai regressions#another example i can think of is lotr....and another is funny enough the bible#but those arent things i know well enough#but yeah....orv and narnia conspiring together for this nonsense of mine#again disclaimer this really isnt meant to attack anyone or say im right...its just another opinion to be lost in the sea of internet#but yeah....i did kinda get carried away xD...my poor rambles never get any good transitions#fandom spamdom#note's nonsense#things about writing#orv spoilers#another disclaimer i wrote this after having been awake for like....almost 19 hours coherence be gone#but yeeting it into the void nevertheless#i also think there was a post circulating once that talked about death of the author not being actually used in academic circles#excuse me rambling in the tags
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hm. Worry Time(tm)
#vent AND a ramble holy shit#bc what if im not attached to leo by the time the game starts yknow?#he's just a Concept i need Time to work and psychoanalyze him#and even then??#like what if i develop him and he falls Flat or becomes so so different Oh No#god bc John was made over the course of a few months#with an Event in my life being the trigger for how he is now#John already has the Idolization/Hiding Bad Things projection#and ive yet to play Apollo so Leo could in fact have the Desperate Stress kinda thing#hmm#so that could be part of the Base for him since he also has the Depersonalization#stress of being a vampire (a corpse) and seeing a lot of visions can do that do a mna#like have yall seen the bandersnath movie on netflix#its very good but i was in a not-very-good mental state when i watched it#so i dissociated like crazy after it was over#anyway tldr im losing track of this#tldr i need time to develop leo and psychoanalyze him#bc i really want him to feel Alive#because if he feels Alive then i can truly enjoy this game and be invested in it#he's got to be Alive i want to enjoy this game its only fair really#since god (/j) is creating this world for us yknow#its only fair#but it takes me a while to figure out my boys#i need to figure out why leo's nose is broken and why he was a ghoul#and why he has bandages on his wrists and why he felt he had to leave his sister#and why he Did That (but tbh maybe he's got some abandoment issues bc of Jeremiah)#GOD OKAY So Leo has the Dissociation the Desperation and man hold on he's got a lot here#the Mixed Emotions and ALSO some of the Religious Issues#and if i add enough layers of fiction to everyhting it'll be fine#Look at John! he's doing great!
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