#we need physical media

[hilli98215]

No. Of all the shows that I actually like on Paramount+, why is this one getting canceled after 1 season. But get this. Not only is it going to be canceled, but it's also going to be taken off the streaming platform in a few days.

And this is why we need more physical media. I am part of the audience who would love to buy a DVD or the cast album.

It's ridiculous!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[thecruel]

NEW AEMOND CONTENT FKBSKEJSKSNEKSJ

THEY'RE CRAZY....... i'm sick to my stomach. i need to break into hbo's and wbd's headquarters to get all the unreleased footage they have bc what the fuck do you mean they're just NOW releasing this

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[novelconcepts]

One of the things I love so much about Yellowjackets and its use of sex scenes—and one of the reasons I balk at puritan culture claiming sex scenes have no place in media—is how much character gets across in these moments. The scenes are rarely, if ever, just about the sex.

It’s Van and Tai in the woods, this moment of pure intimacy, of letting someone see you when you’re at your most broken and realizing you can still be beautiful and present and whole. It’s recognizing love transcends what you look like, and that there is safety in trusting someone to really look under the mask.

It’s Jackie trying to prove something to herself and to Shauna, that she can be an adult, that she can catch up to this perceived finish line Shauna already crossed, and it’s Travis being so distant that he barely even knows where he is, that this physical act that feels like everything to Jackie is nothing to him. It’s a microcosm of that young adult fear of being left behind, of not fitting into the right tropes.

It’s Shauna and Adam in this primal, teenage courtship that is so about immaturity and spontaneity, where it’s entirely about her getting to reclaim the childhood she lost, even at her own detriment. And it’s Jeff and Shauna, where it’s entirely about trying to reclaim something damaged beyond repair, about the desperate need to hang onto something that maybe wasn’t ever yours to begin with.

It’s Natalie and Travis with this Lottie imagery hovering between them, an encapsulation of Nat trying to show him that reality is tangible, and Lottie being a symbol of hope and spirituality, with Travis being caught between. It’s building on this traumatic space they’re living in through the lens of distraction and escapism, and whether those things can be enough when real life is so deadly.

This show is so good about deploying these very human moments through physicality, and pushing the character arcs forward. Sex can genuinely be such a beautiful and painful way to explore character, and it’s such a fundamental feature of this story which is rooted in hunger and desire and collaboration. It’s so interesting to me.

[hollowsart]

I want to see Older/Senior Citizen Woman variant of Black Cat giving Teenager Spider-Man the slip and teasing him but also being sort of a mentor in a way to him. giving him stealth advice and advice on how to do some cool sick tricks in self defense and fighting.

(while she also steals things along the way… he knows and tries to tell her to put it back and stop stealing, but she just laughs it off, pats his head, tells him he's a good boy and to keep it up for the bigger threats)

[drumlincountry]

[nightmareinfloral]

my dream would be to start a comics magazine that could host letters to creators, opinions and reviews, interviews with creators, promos for comics that aren’t getting much promotion, spotlights in indie comics and comics by marginalized folks, and a forum where people can just talk and send in letters

[osamid]

an interesting (unpopular? i think?) soukoku opinion i have is i don't think dazai was oblivious to his feelings towards chuuya, like ever. i understand WHY people interpret dazai as having trouble identifying and reckoning with his emotions; i'm not knocking it! there's plenty of evidence to suggest that and also i think it fits with his actions. HOWEVER. for me dazai is the most fun when he's deliberately suppressing and neglecting his own feelings. dazai realizes at the tender age of like 15 that he's at least infatuated with chuuya, and his first instinct is "well how do i compartmentalize that. how do i make sure this doesn't interfere with my plans and our job at the mafia." and then he compromises with his emotions by keeping chuuya close but not allowing himself to seem too affectionate or "trick" chuuya into liking him back. i think this version of dazai is most compelling to me because then the struggle isn't "get blockhead dazai to realize he's in/can love" its "get blockhead dazai to realize he's allowed to indulge in love" which is much more fun, especially when you have seven (or even more, i don't think this mindset would be limited to chuuya) years worth of distancing himself from his own emotions to contend with.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[disasterhimbo]

Starting to feel kinda bitter whenever anyone mentions being able to afford hobbies that require money or being able to buy art/collect things, that’s probably not a good sign :/

[guidingbear]

listen to me right now

we are so in love with our husband what the fuck? he's just! amazing! 10/10 man, mi alma mi amor mi corazón

[pocketclowns]

this whole “digital age” thing we’re in the middle of is wild tbh. today at work someone came in wanting to buy a wii, so my manager who was ringing him out let him know that the online services aren’t available anymore. his response was “well then how am i supposed to get games for it?” as though he wasn’t standing in a store with hundreds of pre owned wii games. mind you, im 25 and this guy couldn’t have been more than a year younger than me (if anything i thought he was probably a couple years older) so he had to have at least grown up with games on disks and cartridges. i absolutely understand falling into the comfort of digital convenience, but it’s so interesting to me how quickly people have forgotten about physical media as if it isn’t even an option anymore.

[catastrxblues]

okay actually going to study now

[haveievermentioned]

So hey! For my followers, a cult game is finally getting a sequel - Alan Wake 2 - but buried in the annoucment was the reveal that this game from a large and old studio was going to go Digital Only. This is bad. This is tumblr, I know we all love physical media. And I do enjoy some of the benefits of a digital future, but we need physical options for so many reasons. If you are at all interested in VERY Meta games about writers, depression, misshappen realities, doubles, secret government organizations, reality altering due to writers, legal dramas getting meta, and just... physical media. Please contact THQ Nordic and Remedy enterntainment saying you would love the game, but want a physical copy. Then, if one is made, pre order it to show you mean it. Also, seriously, Alan Wake is really good and the remastered came out a few years ago so you can pick it up easily. Control is more actiony but heads much deeper into the weirdness. You don't need to play either to play Alan Wake 2, but it does help.

[etoilelafleur]

“Why not just use computer animation to mimic stop motion?”

We are witnessing the death of an art form