i just want some sleep...

She/Her. CHILENA. 2001. My studious alter ego hangs out at @heardatmedschool.

[nyanmeowmiau]

Terra: I’m in

Me:

[silveranchor]

I feel like some people oversimplify fans' relationship to the pjo show and think you either have to be a "book purist who hates it because it is not exactly like the books" or "show fan who loves it and thinks it's better than the books and the new canon" and that's just incredibly stupid.

From what I've seen, many "old" book readers fall into "love the show, but recognize it as a separate entity from the books and both are good and valid as canon".

That's how I feel about it too. I like the show and think many of the changes are nice and interesting, and I don't really get angry at them because if I want something to be book-accurate, I'll just get my fix from the books because they're both amazing pieces of media that stand alone on their own and I can like both for different reasons.

As someone in their late 20s who grew up with the books as her favorite series, I feel like I'm too old to fixate on changes and inaccuracies. The actors are doing an amazing job and the show is a great tv series with some really standout moments of great writing. Yes, some of my favorite moments in the books are gone or changed, but I can just read those whenever I want. The show is like reading high-quality fanfiction that I take as alternate canon to me and I'm eating it up.

[nyanmeowmiau]

We got Bang Chan and Hyunjin cussing and being proud of it omg 😂😂

[nyanmeowmiau]

The ace experience of starting to question whether you are actually asexual or not, magically finding yourself in a allo conversation about sex and then being like NOPE NOPE NOPE, MY LABEL IS CORRECT, WTFFFF

[nyanmeowmiau]

Reblogging this as a 24 y/o that is actually in a relationship (I still feel the same way, bc WTF)

[valhalla-awaitsfor-us]

The Society of the Snow didn’t get this level of international recognition because it was a Spanish-speaking film starring Latinos.

But Emilia Pérez gets all the nominations and awards.

They don't care about our stories, they just care about retelling them themselves

[nyanmeowmiau]

Esa de tener que usar la radio a pilas para poder enterarme de qué chucha pasó no la usaba hace rato.

[yug0]

WHY DOES HE SCREAM LIKE THAT

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How did a tarantula get into his shower in the first place?

[nyanmeowmiau]

That specific species (Grammostola rosea, AKA araña pollito) are native to Chile, and they are quite common in rural and suburban areas.

I have been in the exact same situation as in the video (I just left the bathroom, kept the window open and the door closed and the spider went away in a few hours, lol).

[nyanmeowmiau]

ao3 is down and I learn of it by actually visiting it?? how is this not trending?? tumblr you have disappointed me

[blackfliesinbluesugar]

[melisusthewee]

"I come from a plane that fell in the mountains." - December 22nd, 1972 La Sociedad de la Nieve/Society of the Snow (2023)

[dknightlight]

Patana being one of the funniest characters in the whole series

[nyanmeowmiau]

Que wen show.

P.D: yo hice esos subtítulos 😭

[wciwuxicn]

You know what I’m actually not done ranting bc the danmei fandoms on tiktok keep driving me fucking nuts. This rant’s topic is the godawful ”lan wangji would burn the world for wei wuxian” type edits i see on tiktok and i want to scream and bite everytime i see one and not for a good reason. Like did you miss the part of the book where when wwx died lwj took all that love and grief that he had for him and used it to actually better the world? He loved wwx so much that he not only raised the son wwx left behind but also became a teacher and a role model for the other juniors across clans so that he could teach them the values wwx taught him and the values the world lacked and that caused wwx to be driven to death essentially. He wanted the next generation (of lans especially) to not blindly believe in authority figures, to not believe rumors and to question things and think for themselves so that no one would have to be scorned for protecting ppl like wwx was. Lwj loved wwx so much that he gained a reputation for ”being where the chaos is” bc he wanted to help the less fortunate like wwx wanted to, knowing that the big clans often only help richer ppl who can pay for their services.

If lwj wanted to burn the world don’t you think he would’ve done it when wwx actually did die in the story? But see how he didn’t do that? Instead he used the love he had for wwx to transform the world into a better place, bc it was a world wwx loved and a world he arguably died defending. Wwx loved the world & the ppl in it sm that he died standing up for what he knew was right and not budging even when he was pushed to his utter limits. Knowing all of that, do you think lwj could burn down the world? Do you think wwx would want him to? No i didn’t think so.

Also also ppl have got to stop saying that lwj ”waited” for wwx and erasing the actual tragedy of their story which is that wwx wasn’t just gone, he died. He died and he wasn’t coming back and lwj knew that. He didn’t look for him for all of those years (idk where that idea came from) nor was he waiting around for wwx to come back. It was sheer dumb luck and some amount of evil scheming that brought wwx back but let’s not kid ourselves when we say there were a lot of moving pieces in that plan and absolutely 0 guarantee that wwx would succesfully come back to life.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Hi ☺️ I've recently found myself being super interested in the story of the tragedy/miracle of the andes (not sure how it's supposed to be called tbh) — do you maybe have some books to suggest that talk about that event? Possibly ones that have been translated into english or italian, because unfortunately... i don't know spanish 🙈 Thank you!

Hi! I'm very sorry for the delay.

The thing is, the Tragedy of the Andes is the sort of thing everybody here knows about, but not necessarily have read about it or can give you an extensive/intensive list?

That's me XD like, I remember stories my parents have told several times, like the psychic that told Páez Vilaró that his son was still alive, several weeks after the crash, and the shock at the news of their being found and the accidentally poetic "I come from a plane that fell on the mountain" quote. I haven't read about it, so I cannot recommend you anything first hand.

But Fernando Parrado and Roberto Canessa were, between the survivors, the most willing to talk about it since early on. Both gave lots of interviews (there used to be one on YT from... 1973? that was on a US tv program -they both were decent English speakers already- but the channel that uploaded it got nuked and it's lost).

Parrado wrote Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (2007), and Canessa, I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives (2016).

I know that Piers Paul Read's Alive was divisive between both survivors and """aficionados""". Some appreciate the thoroughness of the research, while others feel the account is morbid and laser focused on the material, mechanic aspect and underplaying the experiential/psychological/spiritual side. So on that one YMMV (that's the book the Alive! movie was adapted from).

That's all I can give :/

[nyanmeowmiau]

If you want info:

- To Play The Game - John Guiver. Most recent and most complete.

If you want survivor’s accounts:

- Society of the Snow - Pablo Vierci. Contains chapters on all 16 survivors, mostly what had stayed with them after 35 years.

- Miracle In The Andes - Nando Parrado. Mostly about what happened in the mountains.

- I Had To Survive - Roberto Canessa. Focused on how what happened later influenced his career as a pediatric cardiologist.

- Out Of The Silence - Eduardo Strauch. Very instrospective. Title makes reference to the fact that it was written after 40 years of silence.

- After The Tenth Day - Carlitos Paéz. Mostly talks about how the experience has shaped his later life

- Into The Mountains - Pedro Algorta. Mostly about the “after”. Pedro has a very unique way of looking at what happened, more pragmatic. Not a read for everyone.

- Memories of the Andes - Coche Inciarte. About the emotional and spiritual journey. Alongside Numa, he took over comforting the rest of the survivors after Liliana died.

Others:

- Survive! - Clay Clair. Good info about the search attemps. Known to have made up facts about what happened inside the fuselage, though. Interviewed airforce, no survivors.

- Alive - Piers Paul Reed. Mostly crude and factual, does not take into account the inside world of the people living in it. Has certain excerpts that come out as judgemental.

links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SocietyOfTheSnow/comments/1b2zitk/master_list_of_links_movies_books_updated_2292024/

[miracleintheandes]

The doctors

Roberto Canessa was in his second year of medical school. Gustavo Zerbino was in his first. They were both only 19 years-old.

They administered first aid when the plane crashed and monitored the wounded until the last day.

Gustavo didn’t continue his studies because, according to him, he had seen too much death already.

[nyanmeowmiau]

Also, there was Diego Storm, third year, 20 y/o.

Part of “La Barra”, friend group that also included Carlitos, Bobby, Roy and Coco.

He was also very important during the first days after the crash, and was the one who noticed Nando was regaining consciousness and insisted he be moved to a warmer spot so he wouldn’t die of hypothermia. He was one of the victims of the avalanche

[nyanmeowmiau]

Ese momento en el que te bajas en una estación de metro distinta a la que planeaste.

Porque si te hubieras bajado en la otra, hubieras tenido que cruzar la calle.

Y en estos momentos no confías en que no te vayas a tirar frente a un bus.

[chaztalk]

The crazy thing about Society of the Snow is that it so could’ve easily been nominated for the majority of the categories for the regular films (outside of best supporting actress, best actress, original screenplay, and best original song). It’s got the strong main actors, like Enzo, Matias, and Agustin. And it has strong supporting actors like Esteban Bigliardi (Javier) and Esteban Kukuriczka (Fito). The score was amazing and unique. The cinematography was beautiful yet jarring at the same time. And I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t nominated for best sound. J.A. Bayona’s direction gave as much accuracy and respect to the true story as he could. And his direction had power that made us feel like we were there with the survivors as they were fighting for their lives and tackling their morals. As for the adapted screenplay, Numa’s narration, Arturo’s monologue, Javier’s monologue was peak writing

Just sayin.

[ninaskitchn]

el que la sociedad de la nieve no ganara ni ningún oscar o que no hayan tenido más nominaciones solamente es otra demostración del esnobismo de la academia y lo rezagado que aún está el cine/arte latinoamericano frente al mundo. i’m not even surprised, sólo profundamente decepcionada.