#but the movies arent the problem

[sufferingink]

IM SORRY?????? ASLAN PUT A BUNCH OF BABIES IN CHARGE OF A KINDGOM?????

GET BACK HERE FURRY JESUS AND TELL ME HOW YOU JUSTIFY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD TO BE QUEEN

Edmund lives the rest of his life defining himself on a mistake he made when he was a BABY

THEYRE NOT EVEN PRETEENS YET???!!!

[kirstenly]

I don't like that I sometimes need to say it, but:

Don't make plans around someone, as if they are an important part of the plan, if you never planned to invite them or include them.

It's cruel and mean.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Does anyone happen to have any kakashi/iruka art requests?

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

my mom loves watching paranormal caught on camera and ancient aliens and will willingly go to mediums to talk to ghosts but you try and put on a single scary movie where everything is 100% fake and she pussies out

[vaugarde]

people being super loyal to and defensive over the human characters in the sonic movie is so weird to me. where was this defensiveness for chris thorndyke or the other kids in sonic x. at least he's got kind of an interesting and different idea to him than... tom. idk.

[tea-rexxy]

Conservatives: Barbie is for WOMEN. Boys should NOT play with barbie dolls it makes them GAY and WEAK.

Conservative Men: WHY WASNT THIS BARBIE MOVIE MADE FOR ME???? This barbie movie shouldn't be about WOMEN why does this movie have a bunch of women?

[catyuy]

You know what's wrong with movies lately?

It's not sequels, prequels, remakes, ip spin off movies or book/game adaptatios. It's not too much CGI or wonky practical effects. It's not comic book movies or gorey horror films.

It's the lack of more original content.

Hollywood is hesitant to take chances on anything new or unknown. Execs want known quantities to make money.

That's not to mention the slow decline of movie theaters and the over abundance and lack of trust with streaming services.

What's wrong with movies lately is greedy corporations/people who refuse to take a gamble on new things with their money.

[briarmae]

I don't think my GRANDPA wants to watch SENSE8 with me, Netflix! So yes, when I visit him, I WANT HIM TO HAVE HIS OWN PROFILE AND ALGORITHM. And it's none of your business!

[manda-kat]

The Sing movies are good. I'm tired of pretending they're cringe.

[freebooter4ever]

Reading this in a minute of downtime at work and this one bit cracked me up:

Like YES if pretending that you have the same respect for LGBQT people as you do for your grandmothers is what gets people to stop using slurs then pls by all means. Hahahaha.

[this-doesnt-endd]

I used to have a really giant family like tons of tias and tios and cousins and i say used to cause like it seems like after my grandparents died on both sides both families seemed to never speak again and i had no chance to even try and keep hold of those ties i was in elementary school watching my parents marriage crash and burn in real time dealing with major death in the family and then subsequent family abandoning me at the tender age of 11. Hell my brothers were older and jumped ship it was just me and the horrors

[kidfur]

im gonna go to bed early in a bit, had a fight for my life in the bathroom and it completely drained me of energy kikoho style, but ive had a torrent up for a few hours of the entirety of dragon ball z (with ocean, funi english, and subbed broadcast japanese audios) and its just really funny to me. its about 917 gigabytes big.. thats nearly a terabyte. it will take up a third of my hdd LMAO, its about 2% done right now with an estimated time left of 3 days

[asky22]

Rocket means so much to me.

[agentgreenbean]

one of my main life goals is to not become one of those adults that dismisses every problem that kids/teenagers have as silly or ridiculous. even if i can see that the problems won't matter in the long run, i have to keep the ability to see that it's real for them in the current moment

[always-a-joyful-note]

Thinking some fandom thoughts and then about ORV's portrayal of an author-character-reader relationship with the story and realising how....lacking at times the whole death of the author perspective on media can be.

(Turned out to be long and rambly so I put it under a cut. If you like death of the author, probably not for your worldview? Also, beware major ORV spoilers if you care about that)

Like, perhaps I'm misinterpreting something here, but in ORV, we had these three characters plus an entire system that gave us a look into the relationship between author/reader/character. And focusing on the Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja, and Yoo Joonghyuk dynamic, I realise that none of them really died. Pushing asides Joonghyuk and Dokja for the moment (as I am talking about death of the author), we have Han Sooyoung whose consciousness faded after finishing Ways of Survival.

However, I don't know if we can really call that death of the author, really. Because Sooyoung's whole purpose in writing ORV, her authorial intention, was to save Kim Dokja's life...which she DID. And even after the story left her hands, her intentions were imprinted into the story itself. Yes, Dokja realised that the system was lenient to him because of (spoiler alert) his status as the OD. But at the same time, I think that Han Sooyoung's authorial intent to keep Dokja alive with WoS can also be taken as a factor in the system's leniency towards our reader.

And just jumping from that back to my original point, while death of the author IS fun and can be awesome for reinterpreting stories that the author may have intended as problematic (to our modern standards, at least), to separate the actual story itself from its creator seems just....a tad disrespectful to the author.

Or maybe disrespectful isn't the right word. Like, say, even if said author is objectively the worst of humans, there remains the fact that the story in essence has part of them embedded into it. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, to only give "morally okay" writers the allowance of people who put a part of themselves in their works. Any writer, even those who are writing for money imo, can't help but put part of their own selves into their story...and to separate the story from the author just because we hate the author or hate their beliefs seems a bit counter-productive. You can't just say, after all, that this author's vulnerability in their writing is okay because it's Correct but this other guy's vulnerability should be ignored because it's chalk full of Problematic Content.

But again, that's not to justify authors you dislike or the deeply wrong messages implied in their works. Especially those that could easily be shooed away by employing death of the author. But I think I'd consider fanfic or analyses that ignore authorial intent and their message to be something...new entirely? (Best way I can say it is something something death of an author employed to help the reader create their own narrative inspired by someone else's story rather than it being used to ignore author intent and claim our interpretation is what canon actually meant).

I think there's a saying in music as well as writing that you could play the same exact score or write the same story, it's just that things will come out different depending on the player or writer. (That's not a perfect comparison because the player/musician who WROTE the score could be considered a reader/author relationship...the point is more that the same thing will look different in the hands of different people. And that just as the reader will interpret something in their own way when reading/re-reading (another ORV reference), the author also has placed in their own interpretation and intent in that own work...which should at worst be respected because they DID make that content (and then we proceed to brutally revise it to make something we like better xD) or at best be taken as "word of god" for lack of a better term)

Not sure if any of this makes sense, and I definitely don't have any factual evidence to back up this opinion, but it was just something I was thinking of.

TL:dR? Death of the author is FUN and actually pretty cool but I think the things coming out of it are new(ish) things/works entirely, and og author's beliefs/intentions are important to consider for that text they wrote in of itself.

[mantisgodsdomain]

The greatest curse of Us, without a doubt, is the... us-centrism of the fact that we are Us and no one else. Our view on the world is limited and we are frequently subject to the logical fallacy of The Curse Of Knowledge and we're even more frequently beset upon by the fact that some people, like, are Genuinely Averse to depictions of things they've Dealt With themselves.

Like, what do you mean you're talking about this thing as a reason that this media sucks? What do you mean you actively avoid media that depicts things you went through? Do you not gain that feeling of connection from watching people go through something similar to what you did? Do you lack the feelings that are so easy to conjure up in a strong way from seeing a character dealing with the Same Damn Shit? Do you not look at art to feel things?