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the showrunners of 9-1-1 making choices bc of how long the shows been going on when a big chunk of their audience only started watching within the last two years is crazy

#911 abc #also acting like 8 seasons is a lot when they’ve literally never reached 20 eps is crazy #no one’s watching this show for realism #you can’t have a beenado and expect me to think any of this is realistic #my catholic ass is all too aware of what week it is and I’m expecting a resurrection plot quickly

I have no one to talk to about the fact that Evan Buckley from the show 9-1-1 is literally just Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four

#911 abc #evan buckley

itsicecold

#mission impossible #ethan hunt #same

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Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .

#neil gaiman #tanith lee

studentofetherium

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

studentofetherium

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

theriu

I like to think that at least once, the Avatar cycle seemed to skip the Water Tribe—like people knew it was the water tribe’s turn, everyone was looking for them, the tests are done on all the kids, but like 60-80 years go by and no avatar until some Earth Kingdom kid shows up. People wonder if the cycle skipped a generation or what, but nothing serious was going on at that time so they shrug and move on.

It’s only many many years later that someone is researching Swampbender oral history and someone tells the story of “Ol Stinky Jess, she was a funny one, could light the swamp on fire an’ all sorts o’ shenanigans! Best catfishgator catcher in the tribe, she was” and thats literally it, she just lived a totally chill life in the swamp and nobody knew what an avatar was at the time so they just rolled with that funny gal’s odd bending ways.

#atla

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can’t trust anyone who criticises the mamma mia movie. like wtf are you even criticising. the plot?? the characterisation?? my brother in christ they put meryl streep, colin firth and amanda seyfried on an island, got them drunk and asked them to sing abba songs in the campest way possible that’s LITERALLY. IT. by this point you have to just assume that you’re the problem.

#mamma mia

eatingbugsforfunandprofit

so much (for) stardust - fall out boy

been seeing some ppl post their fob collages so i thought i'd post mine too :3!!

#this album fucked me up !#fall out boy #lyrics

depizan

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

homunculus-argument

I've heard this rule of thumb about finances: never cheap out on things that are supposed to keep you off the ground. Shoes, the wheels of your car, flooring, mattresses. Whatever budget you've got for anything else, if the thing's main task is to be between you and the ground, you've got to invest in quality. You do your research and find the best ones you can afford, even if you go cheap on everything else and the rest of your life is kept together with duct tape. Bad is infinitely better than nothing, but if you can get something good, you get the good suff.

I think the same principle applies in music in movies and video games. The best possible graphics of the time will age faster than you can blink, your special effects will look goofy in about 3 years if they don't look so already, but great music does not age. And that's what keeps the whole thing off the ground.

travalicious

need him so bad

#ryan gosling

lastsblue

fall out boy | so much (for) stardust

#fall out boy #lyrics

you think you've watched enough british media to understand the accents and then you're on your tenth rewatch of sense and sensibility when you realize that one of the characters last names is ferrars not farris

#ive never read the book im sorry #personal things