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extravaganstar · 2 months ago

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A Past DM movie adaptation focused on a vampire ripped from dehli, ex child prostitute, ex sex slave and art muse, ex cult victim, theater kid, saw games connoisseur, technology enthusiasts, liar, killer (ecc.) who falls in love with a drug addict journalist in the 80s asking the vampire to turn him again and again would unironically slap so hard. Something slow and with an outstanding photography made of dark brown silhouettes and reds and greens and deep yellows.

Literally ending with the memory wiping. Half romance half noir half thriller. Focusing on the drug/dance scene of the 80s. Mania, illness, the need to evade life and having your golden ticket right there but the monster wants you to live!!! The monster is there in the drug hen with you!! In the dark rooms in your home in your bed in your first wife face!!! The devil on your shoulder!!!

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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lucabyte · 3 months ago

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A belief in Nominative Determinsim

#mira & isa sitting at the other side of the room: oh that cannot be a healthy rationalisation. someone should deconstruct that QUICKLY...#change's strongest soldiers VERSUS one guy echo chambering themselves about a susperstition-based retributive model of the world. GO!!!#isat spoilers #isat #isat fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #sloops #in stars and time #in stars and time fanart #lucabyteart #hey look now. this is softer than usual isnt it? ignore the. ignore the subtle damnation of blame unto the self. its fine. theyre fine #this is in fact a slight adaptation of that headcanon of mine i linked! yep! turns out the way to comic-ise it was to. make it like #90% speech bubble and get kinda weird with the formatting. it's clunky and experimental but hey. im experimenting.#the next ones gonna have even more fucking speech bubbles if it goes how im planning. christ #then its gonna get followed up with something wordless so. all things in perfect balance.#DISCLAIMER: i like to write loop and siffrin displaying the maybe not so great logic-holes their seeming fear of 'retribution for not #sticking to (the script) what the universe intends for them' entails. i do not agree with their weird philosophising.#i in fact think this is . bad for them. and am exploring how fucking unhealthy their mindset seems to be even when 'mundane'#OCD siffrin real as hell whats with the doing arbitrary actions in specific ways lest Something Nebulously Bad Happen little dude?#anyway if you caught the extremely blunt symbolism of kissing a hand with a knife in it you win a prize! it's called self-satisfaction 🎉🎉#hmm. do people realise i kept calling this type of back and forth between siffrin and loop a socratic dialogue bc socrates was also just #arguing with himself? like he was just making up the other guys. complete thought experiment. i also call them that because theyre WORDY!!!

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autisticandroids · 5 months ago

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CASTIEL: Stop. What's the point if you don't mean it? You fear me - not love, not respect, just fear.

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a godstiel pity party. i'd like to thank an anon i got way back in february of 2021.

#spn #vid #spnamvarchive #so fun fact i started making this more than a year ago. got it 90% done. and then was like no this isn't working #i will come back to this later.#it turns out that i needed to make some videos about cas and angels (the love club + help i'm alive amvs)#in order to make this one. anyway this video is about french mistake robert singer voice season six #i really struggled with it because i could NOT find the thread until i realized that it needed to be literally godstiel pov #it's about love and desire and jealousy and hurt and omnidirectional rage <3 #it's about the fact that cas is so utterly dependent on dean for his self-image - however dean sees him that's it #it's about having a moment of reflection about lashing out before you do it but doing it anyway #it's about taking cruelty and dishing it out #and crucially. it's about being pregnant #mpregpocalypse #fun fact: i made a post about working on three season six amvs all the way back in nov. 2022 #and only now have they come to fruition (this one + love club + metric)#anyway. have you heard that cas is obsessed #the thing is i do kinda want to add some specific director's commentary here. like the first verse is about cas being like.#incredibly deeply emotionally vulnerable to dean. as in: his emotional state and self-image is totally dominated by what dean thinks of him #and if dean is mad at him. and then the second verse is about... dean upsetting him and him responding to that by Killing Everybody lol #like he has a moment of reflection ['certain regrettable things are now required of me' + killing rachel] where he's like i've 1) also done #bad things and 2) i feel bad about it so maybe i will regret Killing Everyone. but then he does it anyway due to everybody keeps turning #on him. i feel like the rest of the amv is self evident. i guess i should note that 'share a paradise' is about how both of them have #a nostalgic view of the early days of their relationship when it wasn't Like This lol. but everything else i think is self evident.#oh and the reason the other angels flash onscreen with their burned wings at the end is i'm EVOKING the image of cas' wings burning. even #though it doesn't happen. i'm evoking it

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beansucc · 6 months ago

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help I’m so attracted to zac oyama. help his huge toothy grin and the crinkle of his eyes deal psychic damage

#dimension 20 #anyone else have an insane crush on zac oyama?#ricky matsui #gorgug thistlespring #the brainrot has a vice grip on my poor feeble mind #he should clone himself and replace 90% of men on earth #so tempted to become a mad scientist to make this happen #zac oyama

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ziggy0-o · 4 months ago

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pink floyd members dispersing the moment that an uncomfortable emotion is expressed

#imagine what would happen if they had one of those reality tv show reunion specials in the 80s or 90s LMAO #they should have had group therapy at least once #pink floyd #richard wright #david gilmour #roger waters #nick mason

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kazcat · 1 month ago

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i dont even know how this happened....

some how got obsessed with this freak

i love him DEARLY

#fushigi yuugi #fushigi yûgi #chichiri #the mysterious play #genuinely i dont know how this happened #im supposed to be obsessing over dragon ball rn considering daima AND sparking zero came out like THIS MONTH..#but NO.... my brain told me to watch like 25 episodes of a 90s shojo isekai about ancient china what #but i love chichiri like ive never fallen for a man so fast in my life...#you should know this is like my 6th day deep in obsession and i already have like 100 screenshots of him #im so over

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ludinusdaleth · 3 days ago

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not to sound emotionally distant when it's obvious i care an absurd lot about what i watch/read/etc but i think things are truly better enjoyed without hinging every aspect of love on if a character has a fanfic ending or if a story is exactly what you picture. because i dont project what i want onto the narrative with impunitive belief, i have fun with things i see others absolutely despise just because they read too much fanfic about it. sometimes a creator has a meaning for what they do that isnt actually up for debate with ao3 fans and sometimes tragic stories are in fact tragic. the inability to seperate fanwork and fan discourse from material has kind of worn me down from any creation i would have attempted, and i wish this state of things would calm itself down before others feel similar and give up art for fear of scrutiny for what a work isnt trying to be. there is a reason folk outside of fandom cores always enjoy things more and it frankly isnt always because they lack criticism but because they lack the concept of making that media their identity to the point it cant seperate from you or you get furious.

#van speaks #this is about literally everything i have ever watched or read in my life then gone online for #criticisms? valid. understandable.#criticisms in bad faith that sound utterly out of whack to anyone that doesnt spend 90 hours a week on the internet? christ.#maybe i would take any fandom discourse seriously if it wasnt interlaced with shipping agendas and anger at deaths #i just..... hate that stories cannot have agency away from what every single one of their fans think should happen #in the desperation for fanwork to be (validly) accepted everyone forgot to have any acceptance for original art #you wonder why art feels like it's dying then refuse to treat any creator as human

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dustteller · 8 months ago

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I think modern au Zhu SHOULD be the lesbian best friend trope to Ouyang except that its because this man is her pet project and gODDDAMIT she's gonna FIX him she's gonna MAKE him be BETTER she's going to SOLVE EVERYTHING and he will RESPECT HER (she is actively making him worse). She has a whole complex about it and everything. She has based a part of her identity on dragging this man up from his toxic funk and is fully convinced that if she tries hard enough he will eventually come to his senses and be an equal participant in this relationship. They have a terrible wonderful toxic loving codependent relationship that's neither a romance nor a friendship nor a rivalry but a secret fourth thing.

Predictably, this does not go well. The character arcs would be Zhu learning she can't fix a sinking ship and letting Ouyang fail by himself, and Ouyang learning to not be a shit person, actually, and coming out of his bubble of self-centeredness and working on himself instead of unloading his emotional labor onto the people around him. And they should both get to develop a healthier relationship with each other than what they had in canon bc queer solidarity is great and its even better when it's in the shape of some weird bullshit some gay people built out of the corpse parts of heteronormative romance (affectionate and completely unironic)

#brought to you by me thinking about the last half of HWDtW and how Zhu interacts with Ouyang post-betrayal #well. interacts with the concept of Ouyang. he kinda (spoilers).#she was unhealthily attached to Ouyang and honestly I think she deserves an universe where her whole deal is reciprocated.#but only AFTER i put them in a fully self sustaining terrarium jar and sic the emotional isopods on them.#that part comes first bc my personal entertainment is CLEARLY the most important thing here guys #the radiant emperor #my thoughts #zhu yuanzhang #OHHH AND ALSO i think Zhu and Ouyang should get to have their weird little gay relationship #while their partners stare in accepting horror.#ma would be supportive bc she knows how important this impressively awful man is to her girlfriend #but rest assured she DOES NOT like him. she will (very politely) bitch about him to Baoxiang and then feel bad about it #she shouldn't feel bad tho bc Ouyang deserves it and Baoxiang repeatedly reminds her of this fact #eventually ouyang grows on her.#kinda like the bowl of mold in the back of the fridge you've developed an emotional attachment to.#he shouldn't be there but now she feels bad about evicting him into the trash!#(she feels significantly less bad about evicting him into Esen's appartment)#Esen has even less of a clue what's happening with Zhu and Ouyang.#he just knows that Zhu is important to Ouyang and also is 90% sure that they fucked at some point.#30% sure that they are still fucking but he grew up around Baoxiang and Ouyang #he has learned Not to Ask! he does Not Want to Know!#and anyways it's none of his bussiness who his bestie/person that he wants to adopt a horse and grow old with/hot roomate is fucking!#its not his problem! he is not invested! he is not going to think about it! there is no reason to think about whos in Ouyang's pants!#he is not thinking about anything involving Ouyang's pants at all! much less about the inside of Ouyang's pants!#and since hes not thinking about it bc theres no reason to think about it then he cant have a problem with it :)#so he wont ask!

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itspileofgoodthings · 7 months ago

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The past couple weeks it’s been really hitting me how much harder it’s been teaching Pride and Prejudice this year—which was so disappointing at first? Because works I’ve traditionally had a harder time with I’ve felt like i’ve broken new ground while teaching and am teaching the kids BETTER. So initially I was so frustrated that my historically easiest work to teach was feeling so difficult! But there’s been some good days that have let me see that part of what was happening was that I have simply never reached this number of kids with pride and prejudice before and so consequently I have never had so many kinds of reactions before! In the waking up from the sleep of simply never paying attention there IS going to be plenty of stupidity, contrariness, crankiness, and almost arguing? Like even with themsELVES. And that’s a good thing.

#it’s hard because I am simply very sensitive and very tired #but I know it’s so good #like I just want to reach as many of them as possible and draw them in #and sometimes the words they say—as hard to hear as it can be for me—are simply proof they are being reached #something is Happening to them #of course not all. there is the usual garden variety boredom adolescent angst and checked out-ness #but this is more than that #anywayyyy of course this is mostly about teaching teenage boys #they’re not going to show you when they’re moved. in words.#but it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening #I talked to another teacher today about it and she goes ‘I can see it happening among them too’#and it has helped! because I really was just in my head about it #first about the book itself (an insane thing but I had a bit of a wobble of just like. okay should I be teaching this)#and then about my own ability.#but it’s just that thing of leveling up.#and yeah some days it DOES make me miss the time when I and the book was sooooo under the radar that 90% of the class quietly checked out #and me and the rest of the students had an undetected fun time #I LIKE to stay in the shadows. in the peace and quiet #but clearly I am not meant to and I have a true compulsion to draw in as many people as possible #it can be scary but I know it’s good #teaching tag #ANYWAYS. thanks for listening

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lachiennearoo · 1 month ago

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Another one of my pet peeves when it comes to romance is when one of the parties (usually the man when it's a straight romance, or just the more assertive of the two when it's a gay romance) bugs and annoys the other one to no end, without ever actually seeming to care for their well-being or boundaries, pushing even when the other is angry, telling them to fuck off, to calm the fuck down, that they hate them... And then you're supposed to want them to be together. That "oh secretly beneath all that annoyance and hatred they actually love the other party".

And I don't mean like lighthearted teasing, enemies to lovers where both equally annoy each other, or a comedy story where the annoyance is just funny. I mean like a supposed "serious" romance, sometimes even steamy and explicit. A story where the characters and their woes are supposed to be taken very seriously. Where you're supposed to really feel what they feel at every step of the way.

And then you're telling me the character would fall in love with some asshole who never respects them or them boundaries even when they tell them a clear no?

Just... Not really fun, innit? Feels kinda uh... Y'know...

Rapey

#spideypool #kinda #cause that shit happens a lot in fics #but also #literally how allurance happened #i love lance but holy shit #and obviously just 90% of pre-2010s Hollywood romance #call me vanilla #but #i think that good romance should have a solid foundation of trust and mutual respect #yes even if they hate each other #i don't even mind enemies-to-lovers if they still respect each other #like magneto and professor X #love these guys #hell even later SpideyPool is good for that as well

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nereb-and-dungalef · 12 days ago

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I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(