edbaldwin

[edbaldwin]

maybe multiverse saga sucks so bad bc they had 12 TWELVE movies and a half (gotg specias) and FIFTEEN tv shows. FIFTEEN TV SHOWS

[edbaldwin]

that disgusting piece of shit just let the world know he bombed iran and ended the text by saying “now it’s time for peace” ……...? please for the love of god someone needs to take one for the team and kill him

[edbaldwin]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

[edbaldwin]

Game Night dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | 2018

[edbaldwin]

who’s got that one gif of Captain Kirk doing this I Need it

[edbaldwin]

worst fear is that i write something from the heart and it gets mocked as #tumblrprose . second worst fear is big big big big ant colony conspiring to kill me to death

[edbaldwin]

“I can fix him” this “I can make him worse” that Pathetic. I can love him so much that it changes the course of the entire narrative.

[edbaldwin]

Those "modern fairy tales where the princess saves herself" types of books not only misrepresent the gender roles in fairy tales (there are tons of stories where girls get to save the day), but they fundamentally misunderstand the entire genre.

Fairy tales aren't about saving yourself.

These aren't epic myths or heroic legends about the great warriors who slay every monster in their path because they're so awesome. Fairy tales are almost always about ordinary, even incompetent, people who get thrown into strange situations where they only succeed because of the help of others.

It's not a gendered thing. The boy who goes off to seek his fortune is usually the dim-witted third son whose older brothers are the strong, smart ones. The third son succeeds because he is kind to the magical helpers who then complete the tasks for him--and the exact same thing happens when a girl is the main character.

The characters in a fairy tale rarely succeed because they embrace their own strength and take their own path. Much more often, they are told step-by-step what to do, and they succeed because they obey--respecting the wisdom of others.

The core virtue of a fairy tale is not pride, but humility. It's not a story about the strong, but those who are weak, small, helpless. The people who can't do it all on their own, but can recognize the worth and wisdom of others.

Turning this story into a "girl power" (or even a "boy power") story warps it into something that is fundamentally the opposite of a fairy tale, and it has nothing to do with the gender of the main character.

[edbaldwin]

they should’ve put bucky barnes in the saw trap.. OH MY GOD WHO SAID THAT

[edbaldwin]

i've miscalculated and i thought i'll be halfway through the winter soldier rn so i am going to sleep bc 2am is when it’s too late for me

[edbaldwin]

what i'm getting recommended

[edbaldwin]

and you should follow me here for full unhinged experience

how am i? babes i am doing mcu rewatch so it’s definitely not WELL by any accounts

[edbaldwin]

btw you should absolutely read stuff you don't agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren't contagious and reading words someone else has told you are "bad" won't infect you like a virus and make you "evil". read with your own brain.

[edbaldwin]

how am i? babes i am doing mcu rewatch so it’s definitely not WELL by any accounts

[edbaldwin]

I understand the desire to ship but "we would find each other in every universe...as coworkers" is an insanely funny concept to me I'm sorry.

[edbaldwin]

i gave your golden retriever boyfriend chocolate. idgaf

[edbaldwin]

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering