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[caffeinewitchcraft]

what the success of project hail mary has proven is that we need more movies about nerds. The original twisters, jurassic park, national treasure, Atlantis, all of these movies are centered around one big nerd and the people love it

[witchsteria]

i do think what gets ignored about carrie as a character is that she’s an incredibly easy target to bully; she’s a chubby, sheltered acne ridden teenage girl who wears frumpy grandma clothes and regurgitates the jesus freak shit her violently abusive mother tells her. she has violent thoughts about her classmates and is uncomfortable to be around. she’s far more interesting being a victim that’s somewhat uncomfortable to be in the head of than a tragic waif. she’s not a martyr, she’s a child and a child who’s been victimised her whole life shouldn’t have to be kind and angelic to be recognised as a victim. suffering teenage girls shouldn’t just be presented on screen as toned down glamorous thin ophelias, suffering teenage girls can be fat and poor and think violently. i do think we need to examine why culturally we need teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering and treat it as bad

[mediamania63]

We need our depictions of teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering because if she's imperfect, it gives the audience room to bully her too. It's disgusting.

[starlightomatic]

i do still think that getting a broad coalition of people to boycott the harry potter show for just the first teo weeks would accomplish a lot more than getting a small number of people to agree to a scorched-earth policy of disengaging 100% from harry potter and not even making hp-related jokes and references

[starlightomatic]

like yes it is possible to get a large portion of trans folks and a handful of allies to completely disengage even from discussion and fanfic and secondhand merch. this has basically already happened. but you’re not likely to get the majority of normies/cis people on board with this even if you believe it’s morally correct.

like, the link i posted says that “talking positively” about harry potter constitutes supporting jk rowling in her transphobia. i do not think the average cis normie will think that sounds reasonable.

on the other hand! i think we could instead be focusing our efforts on pulling people away from spending their money on anything jkr will get royalties from. if we convinced a large number people to hold off on streaming the show for an amount of time — even just one week, hell, even just one day — it will make an impact that will send a message to both jkr and the studio that made the show.

but im not sure that folks are interested in that kind of organizing or impact. when hogwarts legacy came out there was a big push of “pirating it is equally bad,” but pirating it was not equally bad. because money talks and money makes decisions.

i understand that people’s goal is to make harry potter culturally irrelevant by disengaging, and i think it has been somewhat successful in lowering hp’s popularity but hp is still going strong. a concentrated concerted effort with an achievable goal is more likely to succeed than our current strategy.

however i think for a lot of people it’s not about strategy, it’s about moral purity.

[playwrongs]

Stephen King’s Fujo

[kungfunurse]

yeah @sunderwight these tags are gold

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

If you needed any more reason than that. "Who est moi? Why, Nobody *giggles*"

[thebibliosphere]

I have food poisoning, I’m on my period, I have a migraine, my POTS is out of control, and I’m meant to get on a flight tomorrow to hopefully make it to my father’s death bed in time.

Emailing me a “review” of my book calling it cringe cannot hurt me. And if you claim you hoped to achieve anything else you’re either a liar or in denial about your own motives. You should reflect on that.

[thebibliosphere]

I made this non-rebloggable earlier because I didn’t want it to leave containment, but after discussing this with some other friends who primarily sell their work via booktok and Insta, this is apparently a thing right now where readers are going out of their way to message authors “honest and valuable feedback” because they believe authors need to be told how to improve.

Except they’re not giving actual valuable feedback, because being critical of something does not actually mean having constructive critical feedback.

Being able to offer constructive feedback is a skill. It doesn’t mean “having a negative opinion.”

You don’t need to be a professional writer or editor, but you do preferably need to have a basic understanding of technical writing skill, an understanding of the genre you are critiquing and a very basic grasp that just because you do not like something, does not make something objectively bad.

Messaging me to tell me you find something “cringe” isn’t valuable feedback. That’s you going out of your way to make sure a stranger knows you don’t like them.

Doubling down and emailing me back to tell me you “just wanted to help,” like help where? Where was the feedback?

What am I supposed to do with that except feel bad and stop writing?

You knew what you were doing and I will hold that mirror up. If the reflection you see makes you uncomfortable, that’s on you.

- -

Also, as a wider note: don’t do this in general, don’t tag or email authors in negative reviews.

Reviews are for other readers. They belong in reader spaces. If an author invades reader spaces and gets mad about what they see, that’s on them. But don’t go up to the author’s online door and demand they acknowledge your personal dislike. That’s weird. Why are you doing that? Rate the book one star for your own records and move on to the next one.

[leebrontide]

It feels like it should be common knowledge that most people with a job/craft aren’t very interested in “help” from random strangers with no known qualifications?

Like the structural engineer was just here to inspect my smashed roof. Was I going to follow him around telling him how to use a level? How to assess structural damage? No. Why would he listen to me? I don’t know shit about structural engineering.

Being a reader isn’t the same as being a writer. The skills can overlap, but they are not the same. Writers have no reason to place any value at all on the options some random person, who they know nothing about except that they have very very poor manners.

If Im gardening and some rando wanders past to tell me my rose bush would look better over there, in a different location, and also should be an azalea…kinda fuck them? They have no manners and their personal taste is not my problem and I have no reason to think they know jack shit about gardening.

Your “feedback” isn’t useful just because you’re loud.

[digitaldiscipline]

Emily Wison, whose translation formed the basis for Nolan's version of The Odyssey, is brutal and unrelenting in her review of it.

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

[murderballad]

[lethalwizard]

[ledilettant]

[spiribia]

i would be a kittypet all the way in the warrior cats universe. if i heard a bunch of guys were in the woods killing each other for survival and they think i'm the lame one for getting mediocre banquets i would be like you guys are stupidd and then when the thunderclan medicine cat comes by my fenced lot to pick yarrow i would be like what are doing and shes like medicine so my clanmates don't die and i'm like wow you guys really have it that rough. and she keeps encountering me and one day i'm like why don't you come inside there's plenty of kibble and she averts her eyes shyly and is like ...no that would be against starclan and i'd go To have a little kibble? and she's like You know what i mean. and i do. 5 moons later she is getting adopted by my people and visions of her ancestors still haunt her and she is from time to time like Did I do the right thing...? how could i be so selfish...? and i'm like my toy mouse squeaks

[meg-megbanom-ezt]

Warrior Cats is one fandom I only know from indirectly from tumblr (though I still enough to enjoy this piece), BUT a tiny interesting side note- - -

I was at the winter MondoCon and noticed a few middle-schooler(ish) children with cat masks and turned out that they are actually Warrior-fans. I got curious and found out that the first three books were republished last year. So it looks like it certainly becoming (or already is) A Thing now in Hungary, too!

[meg-megbanom-ezt]

I just had to draw the original post because it lives rent free in my head

[xx-skullheartz-xx]

you're so right hen

Who Gets Out Of The Death Arena Alive?

Hannibal Lecter (NBC's Hannibal)

Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Voting ended onMar 5, 2024

get mad. get rageful. debate all you like because im sending them to the death arena and you can't stop me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love how all the notes are like "one of these is Just A Guy and the other one is a monster-fighting superhero with alien magic powers"

[probably-ace-ok]

I think Steven would kill him but like. on accident. He’s not very used to fighting enemies that can’t recover from almost any wound. After, he would be left with the moral dilemma of whether he should bring him back to life though.

[pechikka]

[razielim]

debates i didn't know existed + a very humorous distinction

hostiles = antagonists that Murderbot is worried about 😳

targets = antagonists that need to worry about Murderbot :)c

[jewishbarbies]

so christopher nolan drilled into an active historical site to rig a scene, dumped a bunch of plastic skeletons into the ocean with no plan to fish them out, and ruined an actual Viking ship on loan from sweden and refuses to pay for damages. all for that garbage movie.

[jewishbarbies]

Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage

Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up

Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it

looking for a news outlet to pick up the archeologist drama over this but you can google the practical effects used for the cyclops and find the pictures pretty easily

[jewishbarbies]

Nolan’s "The Odyssey" Has a Colonialism Problem

Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding film

and it gets even worse

[memewhore]

[turnabout]

these two communicate on a level we cannot understand with current language.

[mediamania63]

Part of what makes Moonstruck work is that Nic Cage was able to fully portray the unrestrained passions of Ronnie: his anger, his heartbreak, and his love. Ronnie is a mess, he is a human embodiment of a car accident, so Cher identified the exactly right person to portray him. Ronnie is consumed and controlled by his Big Feelings - that's what makes him compelling! His expressions of his Big Feelings are what draw Loretta to him! He is a direct contrast to the strict control she tries to have over her own life and her own powerful emotions, and he teaches her to give in to her own passions. ("We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and DIE!") I don't think that any other actor would have been able to convey Ronnie's intensity without crossing the line into absurdity. Only Nic Cage could take those extreme emotions and treat them seriously. Only Nic Cage could treat this character with respect. Only Nic Cage could portray Ronnie Camerari.

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[existennialmemes]

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

[kylieminvogue]

"WALL-E" 2008, dir. Andrew Stanton

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

it must be so freeing to be as stupid as a ceo. not a single thought echoing through that hollowed out skull. you get paid more money in 20 minutes than a handful of small countries make in a year combined to say the biggest number you can think of and if your company doesn’t hit that number you get to fire all of them

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

we want to entertain one billion people a day and to achieve that goal we’re going to fire every single game developer we’ve ever hired 😍😍😍

[am1vf]

I like the wording of PCGamer

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/xboxs-ceo-wants-its-games-to-cater-to-more-than-a-billion-people-each-day-or-24-times-more-than-the-peak-population-of-steam-which-is-delusional/

[imoriginalvisual]

Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian but it’s Toxic by Britney Spears

[gallusrostromegalus]

I’m gonna propose something: if your combat/ass-kicking sequence can’t fit to a top 40 female-vocalist Banger like “Toxic” or “Mama Mia” or “I Need a Hero” you’re not Doing It Right.

[fatsexybitch]

At this point its starting to feel like Editors are using 140-150bpm as a standard for action sequences, and I cant say I hate it.

[homestuckphobia]

I agree wholeheartedly with every point above but I watched this first with the sound off because I forgot that was an option and what struck me most is how efficient Luke's lightsaber style is. Almost every flourish he makes and all of what, 2 entire spins?, is defensive to better parry blaster fire while nearly every offensive swing he makes is basically a head or chest level kill shot. If I had to make a guess about his character I'd say this vintage twink has probably Seen Some Shit and maybe comes from a background where resources are scarce and help is far away so if you get in a fight you have to end it before it starts or you're dead meat

[screamting]

deeply want a time travel fic where Luke visits the old republic and the Jedi are like “that’s not a dueling style” and luke is like “yea am not doing much dueling tbh”

[the-punforgiven]

Show up at work like hi boss sorry I'm late my I was helping my mother track down one specific 90s dungeon crawler for the purposes of obtaining a muffin recipe the developer hid in the files

[the-punforgiven]

Anyway shoutout to Stonekeep (1995)

[mushroomsandteeth]

I'M MAKING THE MUFFINS

[mushroomsandteeth]

Burnt my hand picking it up to show. Gonna wait to taste.

[mushroomsandteeth]

Taste review: Make the video game muffins oh my GOD.

[knightjockey]

These are DELICIOUS! I substituted chocolate chips for pecans because its what i had on hand.

It tastes like a pumpkin gingerbread cake! Great treat for fall and winter!

Definitely make these!

[sadhoc]

Text from recipe

Tim Cain's Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins -- They're the shadow king's favorite!

1 and 2/3 cup flour

2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp cloves

1/4 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup sugar

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup pumpkin (half of a 16 oz can)

1/2 cup (one stick) butter, melted

preheat oven to 350. grease muffin tins (one dozen regular size) or use baking cups. mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Break eggs into another bowl. add pumpkin and butter and whisk until blended. stir in chocolate chips. pour over dry ingredients and stir until just blended. do NOT overstir! scoop batter into tins and bake 20-25 minutes. after cooling, keep muffins wrapped in plastic to avoid drying.

[dollsahoy]

I'm sure people have pointed it out already, but

Tim Cain is one of the creators of Fallout

and he is an overall delight

Timothy Cain

I am a video game developer, mostly known for creating Fallout. I plan to use this channel to tell stories about game development, including