it’s so funny when people online act like women reading trashy romance novels is like. a new phenomenon and a sign of the downfall of society bc this has never been a thing before. this has been an extremely popular genre of book for ages. the only difference now is that they’re written by women who wanted to fuck kylo ren. which i guess is annoying. out of every man in star wars like be so serious. they had harrison ford in those movies
Horror is like the only genre left where anything good or original is happening because they're historically lower budget with almost guaranteed high returns even if the movie ends up being just okay at best so writers and directors and editors are allowed to experiment and actually be creative which is what audiences want. Yet big studios are still bleeding themselves dry for $100+ million productions no one's showing up to and aren't even good! Horror's the only thing standing between us and the death of cinema. And I live by that.
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In early 2021, as talk of a Murderbot Diaries adaptation was underway, fans of the series started asking each other questions like, "What would we want to see from an adaptation of our favorite book series?" and "Wouldn't it be cool if this or that scene was animated?" and "Hey, don't YOU know some things about animation?" and "What if a bunch of fans got together to make a Murderbot fan animation?"
Two years of teamwork later, the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project presents our labor of love: a fully realized animation adapting scenes from the first four novellas into a trailer, dedicated to showcasing everything we love about the story of our favorite rogue SecUnit.
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TheSteelChimera @thesteelchimera - Voice of Murderbot, Production Coordination, Script
Alex from Mars @imaginariumgeographica - Voice of ART Kebi/SpiralofDragon @spiralofdragon - Voice of Mensah, Character Design
Verso - Voice of Ratthi, Social Media
Kes @kesbeacon - Voice of Gurathin
brokenRAmodule @broken-risk-assessment-module @contakaidigon - Production Coordination, Backgrounds, Animation, Script, Storyboard, Character Design, Editing, 3D, Sounds & Music
A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.
Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.
These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.
Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.
Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.
you can look at any folk culture around the world, past or present, and find the use of the entire color spectrum. humans are drawn to color, it holds emotional symbolism but it also reflects the land we live off of. I consider it like a celebration of life and our place in it
the problem is that we aren’t actually allowed to belong to the places we live. houses and entire towns are shells meant to be as plain as possible for the next renter, buyer, or investor. the more generic it is, the more consumers it can be sold to. And when you have a country that’s biggest population doesn’t have a distinct sense of cultural identity it will be reflected and mass produced without much complaint
people getting joy from the minimalist gray aesthetic is not the same as the estrangement this country is making between people and place, one of the most fundamental relationships humans need to survive (and be happy while doing it)
When I was buying my house, people were telling me not to paint it this or that color because it would be harder to sell later. Like, I haven't even bough the house and you're already telling me to sell it! I'm buying a house because I need a place to live! I want to live here until I die or manage to move to Europe! We are not supposed to actually own anything anymore. Not our houses or cars or furniture. We are supposed to be perpetually replacing these things, paying more each time around, until we break and die and our bones are the color of the walls around us.
This understanding of home ownership is pervasive despite constant challenges from what Grant and Handelman call “marketplace dynamics”: the pull to make your asset as valuable, in this and in future markets, as possible. As consumers, we knowingly or unknowingly absorb the maxims of the market, developing a “market-reflected gaze” to observe and critique our homes and others.
A market-reflected gaze is horrified, for example, by the listing for this gloriously goth/Raiders-themed home in Baltimore — clearly way too personalized to the owners’ tastes. But the gaze is also critical of anything that’s dated or out-of-sync with current trends. If you’ve ever looked at a listing and thought “look at those ‘90s cabinets” (I certainly have!) or “ugh white appliances” then you’ve adopted a market-reflected gaze. (Zillow Gone Wild is a disciplining site for “over-individualized” homes: if your house ends up there, you’ve refused to subject yourself to the market-reflected gaze; the comments section functions to reaffirm the disastrousness and/or abjection of that choice).
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