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[rosenacree]

I just watched the ballad of songbirds and snakes movie and I'm feeling very emotional y'all.... The book was the reason I got back on tumblr and started enjoying drawing again so it means a lot to me ;w;

[homethelongwayaround]

Genuinely my main thing with the Watcher thing (I watch their stuff but I’d never consider myself a die hard fan) is that I really want to see the back end projections and business plans that went into this. Show me how their math mathed to the point that this seemed not just viable, but an improvement upon YouTube at this moment in time.

I’ve been watching it unfold all day and seeing the comparisons to Dropout, the unfortunate optics of reinstating the “let’s go eat stupidly expensive stuff” show as your first big new thing for the platform while also saying you don’t have money to do the “TV-quality” things you want, all that’s fine and dandy and not incorrect. But I just can’t see how this is financially going to win out.

I wish the boys the best, hope it works out for their sakes, and I hope regardless that one day we get an idea of what the decision making process was. Not the vague “ad revenue ain’t what it used to be” type comments they made in their very not-reading-the-room announcement video, but actual numbers. I’m super interested.

[sleepynegress]

So, this discourse is the main character moment of twitter right now...

And I have thoughts. First of all, the rise of anti-sex discourse in media is firmly based in white supremacist puritanical bullshit. The Hays Code was all about enforcing heteronormative lily-white "wholesome". LGBTQ folk and people of color, and women's pleasure(!) ALWAYS were disproportionately struck with harsher ratings. Second, film/tv/streaming has actually trended towards less sexuality recently? To the detriment of the quality of media that does center it, IMO (or why 50 Shades & 365 were oddly popular, despite being trash)....

Third, and thankfully, even more recently, I'm seeing the turn back towards sexuality in narratives but handled more thoughtfully than in the days of white male directors putting their kinks and fetishes on film (or why Bridgerton and it's spin-off is popular). Thanks to Intimacy coordinators and a broader gaze steering the proceedings. I really think a revolution is coming and all it will take is one big mainstream hit that is thoroughly sexy and undeniably good to critics and audiences. Preferrably *not* with het white leads.

[scullys-scalpel]

If X Files was a mockumentary, Scully would obviously still not see whatever supernatural thing they are investigating but their camera crew would and Mulder would be like, "Scully just look at the footage" but of course something would happen where the footage was erased or some secret government agent would steal the footage or it would spontaneously combust.

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Fabrizio Angelini and Natalia Scarpolini

[x-ladydisdain-x]

Am I wrong for not liking baz luhrmann. What am I missing

[writeouswriter]

Saw a movie review that said the director was too self indulgent in filming his scenes, what does that even mean, or the writer was too self indulgent in their writing, like yeah, they're doing this for themselves, to do it how they want, it's really not for you, so of course it's going to be a little self indulgent? I mean, you can not like how a director or writer or artist or whatever did/does something, sure, I dislike plenty of movies and books and styles, and many things just aren't my personal taste, but saying it's too self indulgent? Huh? Wha? Like for some things I get it in a way if it messes with the coherency of a narrative, maybe, but in these other cases? Self indulgence is the point. They're sharing it with you, you get to experience it, but... it's not tailor made for everyone in the audience, it's made for them, the ones making it, and a lot of people don't accept that with any grace anymore. (And this is coming from someone who's one of the toughest critics on media ever lately, like I will hate things quite liberally, I will love things quite liberally, it's okay to not like things and notice flaws or have unaligned tastes or desires for a story, but some criticisms are just bizarre to me.)

[number1milfloislover]

🙄😒

I feel like we're in a lesbian film renaissance rn (abt time), and what do us gay dudes get, fucking Saltburn.....

[momentomori24]

We'll miss you, Matpat! I've only been around for 6-7 years, but thank you for being a part of that time in my childhood. Thanks for the theories and the videos. You truly are the greatest theorist <3

[felidthing]

tbh i forget that i almost never post anything with my voice in it. 'cause of course people offline... know what my voice sounds like lmao

[august--and-everything-after]

The complete lack of self awareness when women make youtube videos and tiktoks trying out and laughing about past styles of clothing/hair/makeup and commenting on how wacky or wild or strange or ugly they were - and then they put their regular clothing and hair and makeup back on and think it looks perfectly natural and normal and sexy.

[wicked-cat]

"man discovers concept of friends" they straight up DESTROYED him lmao

[nerdie-faerie]

Actually prefer when the film quality is worse in horror movies

[mirrists]

feels kind of weird to see people take geloy concepcion's work with things you wanted to say but never did which usually includes people's very personal confessions and erase said confessions to slap their own vents over it and not credit the original creator at all when they post it

[knittinglizards]

i have started the woman called fujiko mine and am liking it. and i understand like why the change was made and think it suits the tone but this characterization of zenigata is. upsetting

[cinnabargirl]

The name of the rose movie is one of the best compendiums of homely faces we really need to make more media with unconventionally unattractive ppl nowadays