Form and Composition @astral-logistics-assn - Tumblr Blog

There's a palpable generational divide in queer fandom spaces between people who think every unreliable narrator reads like Tamsyn Muir and people who think every unreliable narrator reads like Terry Pratchett.

astral-logistics-assn

Every unreliable narrator reads like Douglas Adams.

I have no Idea who my parents' generation would say this about.

markovchaingang

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to humiliate the other person: -evil -pragmatist -regrettably correct

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to facilitate reasoned discussion with an interlocutor: -doomed -hopelessly naïve -will be found dead in a back alley with two gunshot wounds to the back of the head but will depart straight to heaven on priority orders from the big man himself

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to tally up your opponent's infractions in accordance with a book of empty rules you elected to bind yourself under: -a loathsome creature -never gonna make it -somehow even more doomed than the second guy

astral-logistics-assn

Got owned, did you?

elucubrare

i am so sorry but basically every attempt to reconstruct odysseus's "real journey" sounds exactly the same to me as if you'd said "jack the baker's son is said to have walked for a year and a day to reach the house at the back of the wind....but could that have been america?"

astral-logistics-assn

Given decent shipbuilding, a year-and-a-day would be about right for a round the world trip.

What Jack found, then, was the house at the back of his own ass.

falloutconceptart

"Grandma Monk"

Concept art for Fallout 4

Art by Ray Lederer

astral-logistics-assn

So at what point in the design process did they decide to whitewash Mama Murphy?

luvtonique

Genuine "What the fuck is going on" from me here

We have a million problems with "modern versions" of shit, that's not what I'm gonna talk about, we could go on for years about things like whatever the fuck is going on with The Odyssey or shit like Velma or Saints Row or Dragon Age Veilguard, I'm gonna just ignore all that for the sake of this post.

I want to focus on one recurring thing I've noticed in these modern adaptations of beloved classics.

Why are they phasing out catch phrases?

Okay hear me out. Hear me out.

In Fantastic Four: First Steps, they decided to make it an alternate universe and leaned really heavily into the campy goofiness factor of the 80s retro comic books n shit, right? We got Herbie, we got Galactis being a big goofy giant dude, they threw out all the gritty realistic shit and let it just be dorky campy superheroes.

And then: Made The Thing spend the entire movie being grumpy about the phrase "It's Clobberin' Time" and getting upset any time someone wants him to say it. This whole "Oh that's just in the cartoons I don't actually say that."

Example 2: Velma in "Scoob!"

There's a point where Fred goes "Jinkies!" and Velma glares at him and he goes "What? Somebody had to say it!"

Example 3: Batman doesn't say "I'm Batman" anymore.

Example 4: In the Power Rangers movie that everyone liked, nobody says "It's morphin' time" at any point.

But in the few pieces of media where they DO say their catch phrases? EVERYONE FUCKING LOVES IT AND CHEERS.

>Velma saying "Jinkies!" as a Fortnite emote, everyone loves it >The Thing yelling "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIIIIME!" in Marvel Rivals, everyone loves it >Batman saying "I'm Batman!" in Lego Movie and that new Lego Batman game, everyone loves it >The Fortnite Emote of "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" everyone loves it >He-Man yelling "By the power of Grayskull! IIIII HAAAVE THE POWEEEEEEER!" in the new movie, everyone loves it

So what is fucking with this trend?

Why do we keep seeing modern writers trying to "Eww, catchphrases? That's like, soooo yesterday! Let's make the character actively hate their own catch phrase and avoid saying it on purpose!" our beloved catchphrases we grew up with???

It just feels so much like a parent taking away your bike and saying "You're too old for bikes!" as though adults don't ride bikes????

astral-logistics-assn

Blame...well, not Monty Python itself, really. But the entire generation of fans and hangers-on, who spent their youth communicating, Darmok-style, in nothing but Python quotes. Folks of that generation, who are at this point both the major producers and consumers of pop culture, now have a visceral dislike of oft repeated catchphrases.

#Think of it as the Gen X version of 'read another book'#Ex parrot at the argument clinic

eggl-rd

sitting outside saw a dude in a dark blue jacket and black pants jog past my house nd a few minutes later a woman wearing the same exact outfit and same hair color comes back from that direction jogging past again #trasngener ?

astral-logistics-assn

Dear FBI or whoever,

If you're gonna grow 'em in vats, at least have the good sense not to give them identical outfits.

shiveringsoldier

The person who tweeted “y’all can’t even boycott Chick-fil-A” was right then and continues to be proven right now

cyberpunkpavlichenko

Ehh I think the fact that a failed tactic (individual consumer boycotts) is still being pushed despite its failure (admitted to even in this post) is kinda more reflective of LGBT politics than losers who eat that trash TBH

inzaltsiknyam

no, I think it speaks more to the lack of discipline that Americans currently have with regards to social action. organized economic boycotts of this nature used to work, such as with the boycott of Florida Orange Juice or the NYC kosher meat riots. Americans are quite pacified by decades of (more or less) class peace. this does simply mean that our tactics should meet people where they're at. but, it's not wrong to be frustrated with the lack of discipline and solidarity.

astral-logistics-assn

>discipline.

Characterizing this as a moral failure of an entire culture is making me suspucious of your actual motives and allegiances.

A cop wearing hippie beads and a "Coexist" t-shirt doesn't look any less like a cop.

Laundromat in thunderstorm.

starrynet

what’s your favorite ship?

titanic

hms terror

uss enterprise

ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)

captain ahab’s whaling vessel

ship of theseus

battleship monopoly token

mclennon

Voting ended onJul 14

astral-logistics-assn

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS.

astral-logistics-assn

Favorite actual hull-in-the-water ship is the Cousteau Society's Calypso.

Favorite fictional character romance ship is I'm honestly not that invested in the personal lives of imaginary people. No judgement, y'all have your fun.

theworstgirlsblog

astral-logistics-assn

Finding an actual Death Stranding cosplay on an otherwise generic style/aesthetic blog: priceless.

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astral-logistics-assn

This might as well happen.

wifegideonnav

reblog this and tell me your favorite album written and performed by a woman?

#The Lion and the Cobra #Sinéad O'Connor

visenyaism

“tumblr is nice because it’s anonymous and irrelevant so it doesn’t affect my real life in any way.” Wrong. if you are on here for long enough the words of your mortifying adolescent internet diary will be written on the subway walls and tenement halls and out of the mouths of coworkers and over the faces of tiktokers and and in reddit screenshots posted on instagram sent to you by your friends and in ai dupe novelty t shirts and in the smiles of strangers repeating bits you forgot you left lying around on here when you were a teenager. and also pinterest.

astral-logistics-assn

Haven't actually seen [#vagueblogging the apocalypse], [#pretty things will cut you], or [#memesheep go 'bah'], much out in the wild.

Not quite sure how, but deleting and starting over every 3-5 years seems to have hleped.