#some of them are good

[thistle-inks]

“One day it won’t be like this anymore, we’re getting stronger. Things will change.”

“Might be quicker than we think. Heard the lads whisperin’ on their way out about some craic they heard from up on high.”

“A mutiny?”

“Nah, better. A tournament.”

[samglyph]

I watch one booktube video and then suddenly that’s all my recommended is which is a shame. Because I really dislike booktube.

[khiphop-discussions]

LDH is so ANNOYING for not putting the "Just Like Dat" English version on the new Psychic Fever release

[manedstorms]

*opens up a playlist about a fictional murderer*

Rät, Penelope Scott

Nobody, Mitski

The Bidding, Tally Hall

My Alcoholic Friends, The Dresden Dolls

Duvet, bôa

Body, Mother Mother

Alien Blues, Vundabar

[jupitermelichios]

Okay I am going to need you all to repeat after me:

"The MCU is a symptom, not the disease"

Hollywood in general has some massive problems right now, and some of them are genuinely new and unique problems (not as many as people on tumblr seem to think, but definitely not 0), and the Marvel Movies are the cause of exactly none of them

The MCU has a lot of these problems, there are MCU movies that exemplify most of the problems with modern hollywood movies, (are also MCU movies that exemplify most of the good points of modern hollywood movies, but that's a different argument), but they are not the cause of those problems. The MCU going away would not fix any of those problems.

The MCU is not the reason vfx and CGI artists are not uninionised, that's the fault of union busting efforts by AAA games companies and media conglomerates like Disney, AND it's an effect of modern global communications meaning that the work can be outsourced to teams overseas if artists within the USA demand better pay. This is a new and unique problem to this moment in time, because you can't outsource work on physical sets overseas without moving the entire movie production, but CGI artists do not need to be on set, so it's easy to hire teams in China or Vietnam to do the work for less than teams in the USA in a way that's simply never been true before.

The MCU is not the reason studios no longer invest in mid-budget films, that is the fault of falling cinema ticket sales scaring investors, and the late-stage capitalism obsession with growth at any cost leading studios to reinvent the road-show era mentality, when the entire studio's survival rests on the success of failure of one or two movies. Yes the runaway success of the Avengers played a part in investors deciding that $300,000,000 film budgets were a viable option, but a) it was that successful because it's a pretty perfect summer blockbuster, not flawless by any means, but a solid action movie that a lot of people genuinely enjoyed, b) there's nothing inherently wrong with movies that expensive existing, as long as less expensive movies also exist (a budget like that pays the wages for a fuck tonne of people), and c) so was the success of the Bayformers movies, and y'all aren't sending death threats to people online for liking the Last Knight or whatever the fuck the King Arthur one was called

The MCU is not the reason Disney is obsessed with plot twists to the point of hiding information from their actors, that's a combination of Disney has honestly always been pretty awful about IP protection, a handful of high profile leaks that made studios jumpy, and the fact that in the age of streaming and reduced cinema attendance, the easiest way to ensure people watch a movie when it releases is to make them think there's something about the movie which will be ruined if they wait a week. Short of selling film canisters with built in self-destruct mechanisms, 'this movie has a big twist and it won't be as good if you already know it going in' is the quickest and easiest way to do this, and crucially, it doesn't cost anything extra because it can be written into the movie at the scripting stage. Also a weird number of cinema-goers actually do care about spoilers, and twitter has meant that avoiding spoilers is basically impossible. There's a reason kids movies are largely exempt from the twists for the sake of twists mentality and it's that kids aren't (theoretically) on twitter.

(Also people stopped buying DVDs, so that's no longer a significant revenue stream for studios, so they don't care if people want to rewatch a movie or not, so it doesn't matter if the twist doesn't actually make sense and makes people not want to rewatch the movie because it's not like they were going to buy the DVD anyway).

Pretty much the only problem in modern Hollywood that can be traced solely to the MCU is the fixation on shared universes (and they're not actually bad in isolation as long as studios remember not everything needs to be a shared universe), but even that's just investors doing what they always do and trying to predict what made a movie successful without taking into account that it might just have been a good movie. Shared universe movies themselves can be traced to the MCU, but the phenomenon of studios just copying whatever the last thing to be success was absolutely cannot.

And the MCU not properly crediting and compensating the comics writers and artists? That's not even a Disney problem (although they have made it worse), that is a Marvel Comics problem and always has been (hey look, a thing you can actually blame Stan Lee for without needing to make up weird conspiracy theories about unsuccessful spider-man movies!). Disney is absolutely making it worse, but the Sam Raimi spider-man movies had the same problem, and so did the 1979 Captain America movie, and so did the unreleased 1994 Fantastic 4 movie. Marvel are real shitty about paying royalties, and this has been a known issue since the 60s.

You do no have to like the MCU, no one has to like any piece of media, but people liking and paying to see MCU movies is not the reason Hollywood is shit right now. The MCU is a product of the studio system, not the cause of it.

Block MCU related tags if you want to. Unfollow MCU fans. Don't go to see the movies. Advocate for a CGI union or better conditions for actors. But please stop pretending that disliking some movies is some kind of activism, or that the movies are somehow uniquely flawed, because that's not how any of this works.

(And as always, Martin Scorsesee has a standing invitation to fight me in the basement of any comic book store on earth)

[bearpillowmonster]

Wednesday Review

I was actually kind of excited for this because I think the original Addams Family is pretty creative as well as Values and focusing on Wednesday in modern times seems like a decent idea especially if Tim Burton is handling it. Time came and they said that this was going to be a series instead of a movie, ok, that's fine.

I watched a little bit of the first episode and it was rough, it felt like a Disney Channel version, whether it was intentional or the writing or the acting/casting choices, it all seemed to follow that borderline generic Hallmark vibe (from Wednesday's visions looking right up at the ceiling, Pugsley getting bullied, "Sheriff, you're going to want to see this." corny dialogue.) so I turned it off and just moved on...then it blew up. (Well, Jenna Ortega did anyway) but my dad watched it, my sister watched it and everybody she knew watched it and I was kind of left out of the loop. My dad said that it was good but in the old one, Wednesday was always known for her deadpan deliveries while in this one it felt more forced more often and I immediately got what he meant when I revisited it.

I wouldn't call it good but entertaining. Now one thing that bothers me is the lipstick, yes, I know, picky, but did someone else do it? Because it's frequently that I see someone where it goes past their lips, either over or under, am I the only one who noticed that? I can't say I've ever noticed it in a movie or show before but for some reason...There's a part where they're eating apple crisps but Gomez puts it to his mouth, makes a delightful face and puts his hand in the bowl to take some more but it's clear that he takes it out of his mouth and didn't bite at all, they just added a crunch sound effect in post.

People wait for their next line cue so when they say something that isn't an edgy joke or plot progression then it sticks out and makes me think "Character development?" but no, it's only there to tease something later on. A lot of times it'll be for a character that we're introduced to and then never see again until episodes later when that line becomes relevant. There are a lot of little moments like this but it wasn't because of amateurism and are too stupid to be budget reason.

I said Tim Burton, didn't I? Well, that's true...partly, he didn't write any of it, the writing credits vary by episode like any other show and he only directed 4 episodes (half) and he's not the "creator" either, they just slap his name on it as producer. No, Miles Millar and Alfred Gough are the creators. Who are they?

SUM-BODY SAAAAAAVVVVVEEEEE MEEEEE!! That's right, the creators of Smallville.

Is this more for a new gen or old one? I feel like anybody for anything will try to tell you that their version, their reboot, is going to make both fans and newcomers happy, there really shouldn't be a reason not to (though Rocketeer is arguable). This one is kind of torn because Wednesday is a little bit older and there are references to older material but it has the newer generations to back it up and take place in our modern age. I wouldn't really know who it's aimed at but I'm going to lean towards "newer"

I get having it revolve around a mystery and have Wednesday play the detective but I can't help but feel it'd be better suited to a Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew type reboot.

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[huntingrays]

broke: ranking ships

woke: ranking names of ships

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[ciderbird]

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

[iantojonesirl]

yes i am fully aware that there are actual images of all of the audio exclusive torchwood characters i am still going to ignore that and draw them however i want to

[lonicera-caprifolium]

I saw this cosplay from kenken_Power (link!) over on twitter yesterday, and absolutely HAD to draw it 💫

[elodieunderglass]

hi. what do you mean

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[puppyeared]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus