#there is an undeniable influence

[smoked-salmon-official]

idw transformers makes me fucking emotional bc. megatron made overlord this way. he made tarn this way. and he made starscream this way.

oh my fucking god im gonna explode

[elizabethwydevilles]

When I asked Lucas what Star Wars was ultimately about, he said, “Redemption.” He added, “The scripts to the three films that I’m finishing now are a lot darker than the second three, because they are about a fall from grace. The first movie is pretty innocent, but it goes downhill from there, because it’s more of a tragic story—that’s built into it.”

— John Seabrook, 'Why Is the Force Still with Us?', The New Yorker, 30th Dec 1997

I said to George, […] “He's [Vader] done all these terrible things and now we're saying he's equal with Yoda and Obi-Wan, as if he's gone to heaven or whatever?”. George pointed at me, he was real close, and he says, “Isn't that what your whole religion is all about?”. And, boy, that was like being slapped on the side of the face, because, yes, it is what my religion is all about, and obviously his, but I hadn't thought it through.

— Howard Kazanjian (RotJ producer), The Star Wars Archives, 1977-1983 (2020), p.445-446

[yuriclown]

shes licherally just a girl (her names magpie btw)

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

I need to reread homestuck it’s been a few years since i have and it is genuinely really good like. it is Flawed As Shit but it unironically changed media forever for a reason and that reason is it’s really good.

[lotussokka]

the idea that jc is the main character of mdzs is so nonsensical its almost laughable to me honestly. he couldve been /a/ main character if mxtx had focused the narration around both wwx and him. it wouldve changed the story to be the tale of two brothers instead of being primarily a love story but all the components of the existing story couldve remained intact as one half of a two sided story. however even then he wouldve been one of two main characters. ive thought quite a bit about it over the years since i read mdzs and i cannot think of any way to tell the events of the story with jc as Thee Main Character™. the main plot is driven by solving a mystery that jc had a passing knowledge of, at best, so even if mxtx had focused the pov entirely around jc the way she did wwx, it would be debatable if he was actually the main protagonist or if he functioned as an outsider pov to the main events. i mean that wouldve been an incredibly interesting choice and i wouldve had sooooo many Thoughts about how he’s barely the protagonist in his own story, but thats not the choice mxtx made

[serpercival]

Having Big Realizations today that are literally changing the way I look at media and it's because of this post:

I've been looking at Doctor Who wrong, I think. I grew up on it. It's been in my life with alarming consistency since I was 2, because that's when Rose was on for the first time, so I have this picture of what Doctor Who is "supposed" to be that's intrinsically tied to the Eccleston/Tennant era of the show.

I've been watching Classic Who, of course. I started on the Pertwee era and have been working through, and it's fun! I can look at it and see the connections between it and Modern Who, even if there are differences. But I wasn't just raised on TV that was on, I watched a lot of Farscape and Mystery Science Theater and TOS/TNG, which means I'm used to the style.

Then there are the Whittaker seasons, and I feel totally disconnected from them. Everything is sweeping and cinematic and doesn't really feel like the shows of the past.

But it feels like other shows that are on today.

I grew up on a standard of TV that was "things that feel like Warehouse 13, Eureka, and Lost". Things that feel like the Eccleston/Tennant era. And I'm familiar with and like other shows from the 3-7 era, MASH and TNG and probably other things, where the camera angles and story structure are Like That.

Doctor Who today has definitely suffered some Disneyfication, but that's because everything has suffered Disneyfication. Marvel movies and media have influenced everything to an astounding degree, but that's no different from things that have happened in the past!

1-2 are Twilight Zone and Hitchcock Presents

3-4 are TOS and Bond and MASH

5-7 are Quantum Leap and Red Dwarf

9-10 are Lost and Warehouse 13 and Eureka

11-12 are early Marvel and The Good Place and Black Mirror

and 13-15 are what's popular now, Our Flag Means Death and Good Omens and Stranger Things and everything else that has been thoroughly influenced by Disney and Marvel's deathgrip on media.

That's not a bad thing, and it took until now for me to realize that.

Doctor Who would not still be on if it didn't adapt and change. It has to adapt, has to regenerate, has to change the way it's presented. And fuck it, I'm going to dig in and enjoy it by the standards of media today, not by the standards of my nostalgia.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

anyone else find the lyric

If you let me I will catch fire To let your glory and mercy shine

extremely sobering considering the direction Paramore has gone in?

[asterrisms]

Idk why im thinking about wheel of time ig i saw that one post but 1 thing i do appreciate re show is nynaeves casting purely bc she is my favorite and i always pictured her as black which i reinforced with this era in book where i think elayne egwene and nynaeve (?) Not solid on who else was there whatever. They all wear braids to blend into the local style of where theyre hanging out and i was like. They do NOT have white girl on a jamaican cruise braids rn they cannot. Anyways here is a drawing of her i made when i was ?? 17 . The 19 notes. U guys dont even know .

[lilabard]

finished rereading eragon and I don't remember the writing being just ok and eragon being so annoying for much of the book when I first read it like. 13 years ago but I still very much love the story haha

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Had a very nice day out with my sister today but on the way back I got to the Harrow AU scenes and I am. Thinking entirely normally about my girl

[bloomfish]

it's somewhat funny to me the posts on this website acting like rap is some new thing that the userbase has to be introduced to or has to learn to take seriously. idk personally ive known about it and enjoyed it for many many years. thats because i have good music taste

[sillysymbol]

symbol i just watched dr strangelove bc of u. i will definitely need to rewatch it but i wanted to tell u u made me watch it 💃💃 twas a fun time

YAYYAYAAH IM SO GLAD. on rewatch it's 10x times better imo lol

[divinemackerel]

If i figure out what to do with my bursonas i might make a post about it just to explain to my mutuals or smth but rn i dont know. it feels very complicated to me, even just turning them into ocs

[nanamimizz-archived]

i do think it’s important to read greek myths as they inevitably have formed most of the tropes in western stories

[kabbalicgay]

Motherfuckers got embarrassed when they were being called ''SJWs'' in their teens or early adulthood that you all stopped reading any sort of theory or political work that encourages us to stop and think about what mechanisms and structures are a part of society that influence the way we see ourselves and the people around us - which includes patriarchal and euro-centric standards of beauty and appearance - so now you're too busy arguing over if a child wanting to make her "big nose" less big is progressive and #feminist or not.

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

if there are zero defenders of pete wentz's style, i am not of this world anymore