PFP BY THE AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING @thesightofthestarsmakemesmile <3
just realised that i FORGOT TO DO THIS- banner by the incredible @chronicallyonlinebitch
names- shay, shayne, shen (courtesy of @mischievous-archeologist and @some-random-ace), anne, nina, nirvana (thank you, @dramaticinlyf), or N (nicknames are welcome :)
age- I’m a MINOR and that’s all I’m saying
pronouns- any/all- have fun w it! ( so i made a pronouns page )
DNI is basic- no homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, ANY type of hate at all and you WILL be blocked. If you’re above 18 you can interact with me but please don’t be weird about it
asks are open to all (again, please don't be weird) and moots are free to DM me whenever!
books- riordanverse, kotlc, nevermoor series, skandar series, the blackthorn key, lotr, how to train your dragon, lockwood and co, six of crows, artemis fowl, holly jackson books, (alex rider maybe?), the swifts (no shenanigan isn’t my favourite character what), SHAKESPEARE AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE <3
tv shows/movies- tales of arcadia, dps, she ra, carmen sandiego, gravity falls, the owl house, marvel, good omens, how to train your dragon, (voltron??maybe??trauma??), avatar:tla, doctor who, knights of guinevere, the amazing digital circus
comics/webtoons (this is for u, anon)- so i actually havent opened webtoon in like MONTHS, but- castle swimmer, cinderella boy, post harbour, gourmet hound, DC comics ig (trying to get into it) and SO MANY OTHERS u can ask if ive read smth cause typing this out will.. take a while
podcasts- the magnus archives, the amelia project, the penumbra podcast (juno steel), the bright sessions, midnight burger, fawx and stallion, wtnv,
musicals- epic, hamilton, ride the cyclone, dear evan hansen, wicked, sound of music, hadestown (kind of),
music- good kid, the crane wives, malinda, sail north, yaelokre, when chai met toast, silk route, coldplay, madilyn mei, indian ocean, guns n' roses, imagine dragons, onerepublic, the oh hellos, MICO, simon and garfunkel, (there are more u can ask me abt it if u like)
CURRENTLY (WILL CHANGE), I AM-
reading- sapiens, crooked kingdom, the maid, sherlock holmes (acd)
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The Troubled Teen Industry exists, child trafficking is not an adult topic.
Children get raped, sexual assault is not an adult topic.
Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic.
Children get beat to the point of hospitalization at school, that level of violence is not an adult topic.
That when these things get into "kid friendly" media at all, they tend to be heavily censored is about protecting adult control over kids, not about protecting children.
“oh no, my audience has begun to guess the big twists of my story and are accurately predicting what will happen!”
incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go
(you’re not stupid. I posted this thinking it would amuse a handful of mutuals who all knew the context and that would be about it, so I didn’t think about providing any other explanation. I had no idea it would spread this far.)
I’ll start from the very beginning just to be thorough. so this is Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, a show which had a big focus on mystery, conspiracies, codes and ciphers, etc. the whole plot is kicked off by one of the main characters finding a mysterious old journal in the woods, which detailed all kinds of weird and supernatural things, but then ended abruptly with the author saying they had to hide the journal because they were being watched. the central driving mystery of the show, therefore, was the question of who wrote the journal and what happened to them.
now, the thing about Gravity Falls is that, while it must be said that the writers weren’t always quite as sure of their plans as we tend to like to think they are, it is very much a fair play mystery, with legitimate clues to what was going on. but the writers were caught off guard by how quickly the show attracted a dedicated audience, including a lot of people outside the primary presumed demographic, who started solving the clues faster than expected. so some of the fans were able to correctly guess who the author was before it was revealed in the show, and the theory started spreading. this put the writers in something of a panic, because this was THE mystery that the whole story revolved around, with ¾ of the show building up to the dramatic reveal in the middle of season 2. they wanted it to be a mystery that could be figured out, sure, but they weren’t prepared for people to solve it so far in advance of when it was planned to be revealed, which would have really taken away from the big moment. they weren’t going to change the main story itself, but having been caught unaware by how much attention the fans were paying, they wanted to up the ante and make the mystery more complex to solve going forward–but first they needed to buy some time and throw the fandom off the scent for a little longer.
hence, Alex’s plan as described above. they whipped up a fake shot that appears to give away the identity of the author as being another character in the show, put it on a screen in the studio as if it was a real animation frame, took a picture of it, and ‘leaked’ it online. it was initially decided to be a hoax (albeit, I think, presumed to be a hoax originating from outside the production team), until Alex posted this tweet:
…before quickly deleting it (though not so quickly that it didn’t get seen, of course).
it worked well enough to distract most people for a while, and wasn’t revealed as a hoax until a year later, when an episode aired that definitively proved that the supposed screenshot could never have happened, at which point Alex owned up to the whole thing as seen in the tweet above. by then the episode with the real reveal wasn’t far off, and while people did still work it out ahead of time, it was more of an “OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!” moment than a “booooooring, we’ve known that for ages” moment, which of course was what the writers wanted all along.
personally I find this a fascinating approach to dealing with the problem of spoilers, because it doesn’t affect the story itself at all; if you watch Gravity Falls today–or if you were watching it when it aired without any significant contact with the fandom–you’d never know about it. ultimately, the problem the writers were facing wasn’t that some people might guess the answer to the mystery–they never wanted to make it completely impossible to predict–so much as it was that they hadn’t designed the story to stand up to so many people working on the puzzle together, which resulted in a sort of total output of puzzle-solving ability that far outstripped the capability of any one solo human being. so their solution is something that’s very much targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show.
plus, it’s very in keeping with the overall tone of the show.
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