Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.
So uhhh awards to Bradley Cooper for that scream please. Yeah, THAT one. That's the kind of despair and fear and rage I want to see when characters lose someone they love. The anguish and helplessness of not being able to do anything in a moment like that was shown so well. That was honestly one of the best portrayals of grief I've seen in a long time.
holy shit father?? literally?? THE MUSIC?? hoyoverse music is fucking masterpiece on masterpiece but god DAMN. THE FUCKING KICK SHE WAS HAVING NONE OF THIS SHIT. fatui are so based.
ghost praised soap for every bottle he grabbed but when he tried to return the favour at the prison it was all, “keep it tactical, sergeant,” man really can’t handle praise
I will not be posting about I promise (I know we're all sick of posting on the subject) but if someone can link me to criticism of Barbie's messaging that's not, like, Ben Shapiro, I'd be interested to read it.
🤨people praising Kelly for talking about palestine but like isn’t that what as people we should be doing? I doubt anyone is agreeing to this genocide if you have any humanity you’d talk about it. What Kelly is doing is the bare minimum it’s appreciated she’s got a platform so she should use it, it’s that simple.
I feel like I pretty regularly see Mash, or sometimes all media from a few decades ago, getting praised for having average-looking people on screen who are narratively treated as sexy
which is funny because it's not average looking people, including on Mash - it's average looking men
women in hollywood media of all decades have been like 99% model-esque, and I would not personally say it's any better to have average looking men constantly paired with bombshell model-esque women than to have model-esque men paired with model-esque women. it's not great that unrealistic beauty standards have expanded to encompass men in a lot of media (though certainly nowhere close to all of it), but i'm certainly not gonna say older media was better about this when at least in this day and age we very occasionally get shows like A League of their Own or (the adult timeline in) Yellowjackets starring women who look and are styled like people I occasionally see on the street
can't think of an old hollywood show that has room for an average looking female protagonist
let me just add there are an infinite amount of other amazing fics that will not have made the list simply due to time constraints and lack of reach, etc. your fic is valuable and loved whether it made the cut or not—please do remember that!!!!!!