RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

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RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)
Ugh bless you 🙏🥺 (I'm leblogestunmonstre btw).
Do you feel a bit like whatever the show is doing with G is being buried under everyone's expectations for what a female-mother-vampire character should be? (We need Akasha and other women stat... )
Like with the club scene, I'm not 100% sure yet what's the what, but I can't imagine they have G kissing a woman just to pander to the male audience gaze (I feel like G would be styled more form-fitting/revealing if that was the aim of the scene? Egg on my face if I'm wrong in the end).
I mean /I'm/ also biased because I want it to be a nod also to the 70s lesbian vampire films, so I'm not one to talk (I want a queer female vampire 😅), but I feel like many people are eager for a reason to not think deeply about her unless she's doing exactly what they want on screen.
Again, maybe I'll be wrong and it's all shallow and 2-D...but I'm holding on til ep 7. She's somehow too obscene and too tame at the same time...which makes me feel like nobody wants to crack her open and see what ticks.
Do you have any thoughts about Gabi and gender?
God I have so much to say because there are so many different aspects to the reaction to Gabi.
I'm honestly like... so shocked that I'm in the minority of people who really love what the show is doing with Gabi so far. I watched episode 2 and was so excited to see what everyone had to say about Gabi but I guess for a moment I lived in a world where misogyny didn't exist or something. Insert "'we need more complex female characters' you can't even handle Gabrielle" meme here.
And yeah I do think a lot of fandom perception is being heavily scewed by disgust. And I don't mean disgust at incest in general (which is absolutely valid and is the intended response), I mean specific disgust at incest and incestuous abuse from a mother.
Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I've ever read - but I've read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.
Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:
I feel like this excerpt is significantly enhanced by knowing that the novel in question is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an inexplicably sapient flea who lives on Bella's body, and that's why the third priest's penis is described in this way: from the narrator's perspective it literally blots out the sky.
me when im a flea
I miss when you could go into the tags of a fandom and find really cool people making shit purely for the love of it, nowadays you join a fandom and it's essential for your sanity to make 2-3 mutuals who get you and then get the fuck outa there as fast as possible or you’ll develop a deep resentment for it
i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way
I don’t like this actually
This is depressing does anyone else find this depressing
I would actually make the argument that the heart of the problem here is not either about fans, as the article claims, or production companies being exploitative cowards, as some of the comments are claiming. The heart of the problem is the increasingly eroding privacy we are seeing in the modern age.
There's some people in the comments saying "fandoms have always been like this" and others saying "No, it's worse than it was." And both are to some extent right. Fans (or at least a small percentage of fans, and the larger a fanbase gets the larger a group this will describe) have always been Like That; but they did not always have the level of access to creators and actors that they have now.
The notion that a performer needs to be constantly available to public scrutiny, that their personal information should by default be available to any rando with google, is pretty new. It used to be that actors would only be expected to engage with the public on limited, specific, and controlled occasions, usually with security provided. Now they're being asked to rawdog exposure to the mob 24/7 on their own.
(Also, production companies have always always always been exploitative cowards, just to get that straight; reading the biographies of literally any actress from golden Hollywood years makes that clear. It's just, again, more public now.)
There has also been a negative feedback loop as fandoms come to realize that the constant access they have to creatives increases their leverage and power. It did not use to be the case that this was so; fandoms pre-internet largely worked under the assumption that they didn't really have any meaningful way to contact or influence the publication houses. Even if they sent a letter or a campaign of letters, they wouldn't even know whether the letters were being received or read unless the publishing house chose to respond. So, without that expectation of access, the drama usually stayed internal. Nowadays, with constant immediate feedback from creators and publishers, fans are ever more incentivized to act out to try to push an agenda, get attention, or just vent whatever is going on in their lives onto a face contractually obliged to be friendly to them.
This counts as fan art
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.02: Toledo TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version.
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Psychological warfare à la Louis de Pointe du Lac
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Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane
my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time
i think the joker should start talking like this for real. no other character should do this only the joker. i want batman to have to deal with this
Would you be comfortable with me sharing the story of how I got these scars
That would have been an incredible episode of Batman: The Animated Series, though. Joker gets out of Arkham, having convinced the psychs he's rehabilitated by speaking in fluent Therapy. Bats spends the entire episode losing his mind, because he KNOWS it's an act because NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT and Joker reacts with total calm and understanding when he finds Batman in his pantry at 2AM. "You're violating a boundary right now, but I realize this behavior is caused by a history of trauma. Can we talk about how your inability to trust negatively affects those around you?" Meanwhile steam is just coming out of Batman's ears
Are you in the right headspace to receive information on you potentially being overserious?
eternal monogamy <3
ever since i was a little girl i knew i won’t be participating
modern media in a nutshell