#suspension of disbelief?? ye

[poisonouspastels]

I wish more people would weigh out the demand of how "realistic" something is regarding horror media thats supposed to be around a certain time era or within certain limitations with the fact that if it WERE 100% accurate to what it's trying to represent, it'd probably be lame as hell.

[autism-alley]

hi originally posted this at the end of a long thread of back and forth, here’s the og post if you want full context but i feel like this needs to be its own post especially bc i keep seeing this argument being made—the argument that the kids (in this case it was annabeth) SHOULD just know the monsters are monsters and who they are and how to defeat them before ever encountering them, that it’s a problem if they don’t.

the problem is not if 12 year olds should recognize a trap when they see one, even if they’re smart 12 year olds, and if that’s realistic. that is entirely beside the point.

the problem is rick riordan wrote a book series whose formula is bringing myths to the modern age and he’s not sticking true to that in the show—percy jackson and the olympians’ Shtick is taking these classic, ancient threats and giving them a new face. these traps work because these kids are not walking into a cave marked with Get Out and getting ambushed by monsters—the monsters are disguised as harmless mortal human beings, in harmless mortal human being places (for the most part) and i think we—and more importantly, the show—are all forgetting the mist, the magic involved here. it’s not just that medusa is a “creepy lady with her eyes covered” it’s that there is ancient magic at work here, magic that, like the systems of abuse pjo exists to criticize, has been evolving and continuing its malevolence for millennia. it’s formulaic, that’s the point. it’s the same trap you’ve learned about all your childhood, the same trap a thousand children before you learned all their childhoods, and still, it works. you fall into the trap. because that’s how generational abuse works. it’s a trap. it isn’t enough to learn monsters exist, what they look like from a second hand story that originated thousands of years ago. if you want to escape alive, you have to adapt as quickly as they do, recognize their face, and ultimately, beyond any individual trap, the game itself has to change. real, generational change.

so. the problem is rick riordan wrote a series with a formula for action that perfectly captures the overarching, systemic conflicts he was commentating on, and then threw that formula out in the show because it was “unrealistic”. i don’t give a damn about realism when it works to the detriment of the story. this is a story about generational abuse, yes, but it’s told through ‘a tale as old as time’ and that’s why it works so fucking well. and when it comes to basic storytelling, if your characters know the threat before they even walk in and you do practically nothing to then make up for the stakes you have removed, that’s a flaw. now you’ve lost the entertainment value for your audience, on top of also lessening your themes.

something else that is so. honestly soul-crushing as a writer and a creative, is that to me this is reflective of the way we are now afraid to tell earnest stories. stories where we care not for listening to the people who want to pick apart fictional, mythical, fantasy stories for not being “realistic” instead of aligning with our target audience who acknowledges reality is not what makes a story. think of your favorite movie, show, book, comic, what have you—has the reason for your favoritism ever been because it is the most reasonable, the most grounded, the most practical out of any you’ve seen? or is it because of the emotion? the way it speaks to you, to your life and the person you are? the journey it takes you on? is the percy jackson and the olympians book series so good because it’s inherently realistic?

the secret to storytelling is, very simply, focus on your story. everything else is secondary. if it’s written well, it doesn’t matter to me that the characters walk into a trap that, to the audience, is obviously a trap. because i can understand how the characters don’t know it, and how the story falls apart if the narrative just tells the characters it’s a trap from the jump. that’s what dramatic irony is—first used in greek tragedies! this is literally a tale as old as time in every sense except for the end—where it’s happy. and it’s not earned if we don’t first see, over and over, the status quo as a tragic trap.

it’s not about if annabeth (or the other kids) is “smart enough” to not walk into a trap, or about if she’s just too prideful to not walk into what she knows is a trap (or any reason that could apply to the other characters), it’s that annabeth, at the end of the day, is a character. she is a storytelling tool for the messages of the narrative. that doesn’t make her any lesser. in fact ignoring it reduces her, because it reduces what she represents. it’s about how rick riordan, or whoever else at disney, has fumbled the storytelling bag so ridiculously hard that they can’t take the simple, effective formula outlined from start to finish (by good ol 2009 rick himself) and adapt it to the screen without answering the most unimportant, derailing, anti-story questions.

[nethnad]

rewatching the swordfight scene from the sea devils right now and

this has got to be the strangest en guarde position i've ever seen. sir what are you doing

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

Taketora "eats an entire carton of raw eggs for the protein boost" Yamamoto vs Shohei "nods encouragingly while thinking about how he's gonna retell this on stage later" Fukunaga

[fatfurfoof]

please please PLEASE draw the baskin robins bunny again. shes so goober i need to see her more /nf

here! BASK in the ROBIN!! i will draw her more properly later but still traditional sketches are nice hopefully

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

it was an er au specific suggestion at first but now i'm kind of into the idea that arthur's inexplicable inhuman durability is a thing john is unintentionally doing.

like, larson implies that they're both dying but this obviously hasn't been borne out by canon so far, because arthur seems in fact to have something holding him up beyond any reasonable physical limits, not wearing him down. so maybe it's the reverse. maybe larson and yellow were killing each other only because they were fighting over the body and the power constantly. maybe "having a god inside you" is a thing that can very quickly destroy a human body if the god is actually trying to destroy it—but john wants the opposite, so that's what his very limited power responds to. rather than tearing each other apart, they've grown into each other, physically and metaphysically entwined in an even deeper way than just sharing body parts.

maybe taking john out permanently would bring the hammer down! maybe all of the stupid bullshit would catch up with him and he'd start dying! maybe it'd be like shutting off a vital organ! maybe, maybe, maybe!

[mongeese]

Let's make one thing clear and that is that Kipperlilly Copperkettle would be a horrible teenager in every universe, but in her specific setting she was right. The universe does revolve around the Bad Kids, bc they are literally the protagonists. And she correctly identified a way to become important in that universe -- by becoming a villain. But Brennan did that totally by accident and therefore there's no engagement with that concept whatsoever

[chanrizard]

wait ✋🏻.....they don't get you like i get you....

[averagemrfox]

Everyone is talking about the terrible tan lines team rwby will end up with but I haven’t seen anyone talking about Yang’s prosthetic being made of presumably some kind of metal and there’s no way that wouldn’t get toasty in the desert heat

[sequesteredbhaalspawn]

Larian doing bull shit with God Gale not being able to heal Karlach's heart or cure Astarion's vampirism, because" interfering with bodies" isn't in within his domain.... when it literally is what all gods do when they grant their clerics healing magic?

I really wish Larian just gave a real reason for God Gale not doing it. And not just some bullshit that makes no sense.

[kashilascorner]

Oh ok. I get now why a lot of people didn't vibe with the ending.

All and all: excellent manga, overall very good final act, too rushed final 2-3 chapters but weak and honestly mediocre epilogue, which makes the high of the ending kind of leave a bitter taste. I think Noda had a good steed and suddenly he had to finish and had to rush all. So the ending in the sense of the final arc was good but the ending proper (final couple chapters) + epilogue......... Not so much

[memento-yuumori]

So Liam, who woke up from a coma like 3 days ago, sees Sherlock off and Sherlock tells him “don’t go thinking about forcing yourself to go out alone”

He then proceeds to go out alone (we don’t see anything indicating he took a carriage at any point) and he winds up at Bethesda fountain…

…which is FIVE MILES away from the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge!!! That’s almost a two hour walk!! And we don’t know where in Brooklyn their apartment is, (we know they walked from there to the Brooklyn bridge so it can’t be too far away but still), but we have to take that distance into account as well so that’s REALLY FAR HELLO???

And then like a day or two later he rides to his husband’s rescue and beats up a bunch of guys and he only has one eye for the first time in his life which I don’t imagine is easy to get used to and he was IN A MONTHS-LONG COMA!

Liam you’re such a badass but PLEASE TAKE BETTER CARE OF YOURSELF

[mask-of-anubis]

you know what? I decided don’t care about any another plot hole in this show. Because as far as I’m concerned the only plot hole that matters in this whole show is that goddamn latex hyper-realistic skin mask bullshit they tried to pull in the middle of a random episode of s2

[ro994art]

Now that I've finally watched (and fell in love with) the movie, quick sketch of Ember and Wade. I feel like they embody this meme. 😝🔥💧

[konshokoentaiko]

i need to write a lawlight au where l and light are contestants on an idol survival show à la idol producer (2018)

[pianapplez]

I'm so tired of shows that absolutely ignore the source material and feel like they straight up don't understand what's important about it, just make a different show why even bother at this point.