#bits of his collections are nice but they're getting a little samey

[alasarys]

“Nine People you want to know better” tag game

Tagged by the inimitable @apeacebone 💕 and tagging @francorchampignon, @firemanseb, @landoisokay, @danifesting, @opheliaoversteers, @icelitten and anyone else that wants to do this. Clearly that's not nine people, but you'll just have to live with it.

Last Song: 'Let's get fckd up (feat. Tribbs)' – Alok, Mondello'G, CERES. This is simply indefensible. Awful. Thanks, Spotify algorithm.

Favorite Color: Blue, but if I have to wear it, orange. Like, hot orange. So hot people mistake it for red, but it isn't.

Last Movie/TV Show: Crazy Fun Park. It's an Australian horror comedy aimed at teens, and so much fun. "When his best friend Mapplethorpe dies suddenly in an abandoned park, Chester discovers that his friend now "lives" with other children in the park, leading them to reestablish their friendship as they go through a difficult adolescence."

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Savoury.

Relationship Status: Married. Trying not to be too weird about Daniel and George.

Last thing I googled: "prince albert piercing" – because if I'm going to make a throwaway joke about Charles naked, then I want to be sure that I've got the name of both the sovereign and the piercing correct.

Current Obsession: Uh ... I mean ... yeah. George. Lando. Together. Separately. With others. Don't care, just lemme at 'em.

Last Book: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Cynically, yes, this is exactly how I perceive publishing to work: the same as any other marketing, but with a veneer of worthiness.

Looking forward to: You know what? Let's make this a list of things you can ask me about this next time year and we'll see how well I've done. I'm looking forward to reading more books, creating things, writing more, learning to edit video, learning to DJ, getting fitter and stronger, sorting out the inordinate amount of stuff in our house, and generally being a happier, more well-rounded person.

[awakenedmaiden]

@ancientforged replied to your post “Went and saw the new Ant-Man movie. Personally, I...”:

MCU movies often work best in a vacuum, where they aren't too reliable on continuity or setting up stuff i think, i guess that is mostly my problem with things post-endgame, altho each to their own i say

​I don't quite agree but I can understand that point. For me I like the broad continuity stuff, it reminds me of being a little Lis reading comic collections of things like the Infinite Crisis or the original Civil War. So to me specifically the movie arcs feel kinda nice.

But I super get that to a lot of people it's a lot to deal with. Like you can't just watch, I dunno, Spider-man No Way Home, because not only did you have to watch the first two Spider-man movies but also you gotta know who Doctor Strange is from his movie. And you gotta understand what the "Blip" was from Endgame. Then you gotta know Sony's Spider-Man 1-3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2. Which, if you wanna just sit down and watch a movie, is way too much. Particularly since they're being more and more like this.

Or, like, with this Ant-Man movie. The plot references Ant-Man's actions in Endgame a lot. Also the television show Loki (which I never saw) did a fair bit of set up for this (that was also a problem with Doctor Strange 2 as I have never seen Wandavision and that was apparently quite important to the film). And this movie was used to set up the main villain of the later coming Avengers movie. So then you'll probably need to see it to understand things in 2 years.

So I totes get how that can be folks problems with the more recent stuff.

For me though, my problem is more a matter of tonality. I'm not saying that the old Marvel movies weren't funny, like there's totally jokes in Captain America, Thor, etc. BUT.

Guardians of the Galaxy came out. And it was good. GotG 2 is personally my favorite film in the MCU. The GotG were a specific kind of humor. Where they were constantly quipping. Serious moments were almost (and the almost is genuinely very important) undercut by some sort of gag. And it was basically funny all the time. Which worked fine with Guardians of the Galaxy. That is the tone of that particular set of films and it is a tone that fits those set of five characters.

But ever since it came out. It honestly feels, to me, like every single Marvel movie was wanted to be Guardians of the Galaxy. It took some time and was a bit slow but nowadays every time I watch a Marvel movie it just feels like GotG but without the Guardians. Every Marvel character has become, like, a wisecracking constantly joking sarcastic dude that's vaguely an asshole. Which just makes them all feel samey to me.

Like I still watch the Marvel movies but most of them, even though I enjoy them, I don't find myself with an interest in going back and watching again. I'm down to rewatch, say, Captain America: The First Avenger because it feels distinct. But I don't think I'll be rewatching most of the stuff that's come out since, oh, I'd say after Thor 3 because it feels the same as watching any other. TBH even Thor 3 does but Thor 3 manages to be really funny with it so I am down to rewatch it every couple of years.