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[frostbyte4free]

Not to hot tag myself in here, but I think this analysis of video game improv as professional wrestling is pretty much spot on. In fact, during the making of this little video I made mostly fixated on contemporary scripted content in the Minecraft scene, there was an entire segment of analysis I cut to bridge the transition from gladiators to the carnival to the fairground origins of fixed professional wrestling. Most of that was scrapped, since I figured it would be a bridge too far to ask of viewers in a video already prone to lengthy tangents, but the parallel at least survived implicitly through some of the vintage professional wrestling clips I chose to accompany the monologue. Like Werner Herzog famously said of professional wrestling, "the poet must not avert his eyes." He called wrasslin' a sort of "crude drama," but this was explicitly in reference to the WWF's Vince McMahon-produced melodramas that occurred outside the ring (which, to be fair, are almost always the weakest part of pro wrestling as an art form since they typically amount to community theater). Like Herzog, I would call what happens in the ring a crude drama, too, but in that case not at all pejoratively— this is the medium of wrestling's greatest strength. It is a story told through action, through the movement of bodies and physical exchanges. This is a primordial mode of pantomime, perhaps one of our earliest wordless forms of storytelling. Call it crude if you must, but that implicitly concedes how deep in the species that impulse runs. I would call that art. And since awakening from my frozen slumber and dusting off my presence around these parts, it has consistently been my contention that Minecraft and YouTube videos can be, too. Solar said it better than I ever could.

like okay we've very intentionally quarantined off all mcyt posting to another blog bc we know it annoys people but at some point i think there should maybe be a conversation around how people treat nascent artistic mediums as particularly foul/offensive/annoying/unworthy of serious analysis and how as a result the artistic capability of those mediums is set back by years while a lot of founding "texts" from these mediums start getting lost and overlooked. comics is wrestling is video games is ingame improv. you don't have to like a particular medium but the barest modicum of respect would really help to make fandom around it less annoying.

[glitteratti-moved]

how it feels to listen to an album in order

^ me & the artist sharing their beautiful vision for a cohesive work of art

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[dishesoap]

the worst part about being an adult is thay its no longer socially acceptable to just roll down a really big hill and then run back up it and roll back down again. "oh is this a syphilis metaphor" passerby would ask. "is this for a tick tock". no i just wanna come home covered in dirt and scratches and bask in the the solace of childlike mirth

[wernerherzogs]

by Amos Stillwell

[alex-strike-is-transgender]

I think people should be allowed to sleep in the same bed in a non sexual and non romantic way. I think cuddles can happen non sexually and non romantically. I think most acts of affection are non sexual and non romantic until you make it sexual or romantic (other than the obvious things like actual sex is sexual)

[katsurolle]

just let it be me, okay?

[aropride]

i get catcalled while out with friends at 1am and i say "excuse me, i actually identify as a transgender man and i would like to utilize my male privilege to avoid this interaction," and he says "oh i'm so sorry sir, i did not mean to invalidate your gender identity, do you know of any women i could harass instead? sorry again for the trouble"

[iveremade]

“Good luck. And DON’T fuck it up.”

[beebfreeb]

Louisiana Meshi!!!! Thistle will be at the crawfish boil.

[omorinintendoswitchedition]

“harry is irredeemable because he has the capacity to be a fascist” EVERYONE HAS THE CAPACITY TO BE A FASCIST DICKHEAD IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR FUCKING BRAIN

[jojaxcola]

"no one told me back then that i was in the glory days."

[ jojamart mockumentary #14 ]

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[megamindsupremacy]

My take is that if you’re going to break up a happy healthy committed straight ship to make room for a gay one (or vice versa, but lbr the former happens more often in fandom) then you HAVE to keep the characters’ insanity for each other intact. Like ok yes sure we can handwave “it was a different time and we were younger and now that things are settled it’s for the best that we split” sure whatever BUT! I will not accept these guys becoming ambivalent to each other. You MUST maintain the fact that they would absolutely kill someone if the other asks. if you take away the romantic attraction then the years of history and emotion remain and now instead of kissing each other the blorbos just have to be really intense about their ex’s health and safety instead.

[mmhue]

they r driving me insane btw

[turnabouthellos]

middle aged man bishie sparkles….. i’ve never respected capcom more

[fantastic-nonsense]

"Damian should be a veterinarian when he grows up" this and "Damian should be a doctor" that….I think he should take advantage of his wealth and be an art major