lady at target told her daughter (in Korean.. a language I speak) not to be like me because I looked like I “don’t appreciate my Asian roots”
Idk what the fuck she means by that..? I don’t look Korean whatsoever (even tho I am) I’m literally Albanian as well
She doesn’t know anything about me. Not the languages I speak. Not how i don’t connect much with my Korean heritage because of my mom. NONE OF THAT. And she still chose to make comments
I think she could tell that my hair was dyed even though it looks pretty natural on me, and she chose to make a comment about how that makes me a worse person?
Imagine a modern geraskier au where Jaskier and Geralt own a nice little house and a lawn and all that jazz and Jaskier is overly picky about his flowers and his garden and whatnot, so he makes Geralt help him with the yard work instead of hiring someone to do it like "normal celebrities do" (as Yen said with an eye roll) which results in many paparazzi photos of the two of them just. Mowing the fucking lawn. Cutting back the shrubs. Trimming the rose bushes and fertilizing the pumpkins. It's the most bizarre thing to happen to Hollywood since Jake Gyllenhaal said he doesn't shower. One day Jaskier is sick and they have Ciri for the week and he needs to do yard work, it hasn't been done since last week god forbid, and Ciri steps up and is like "Don't worry father dear. I will help with the yard work." which then results in Jaskier posting the most vile, suburban mom photos to all of his socials of Geralt and Ciri doing yard work. Just the most sickening, yet endearing grandma behavior that is possible in a thirty year old man. He's so proud of his darling little girl and his amazing husband, he really is. He starts a livestream and he's just sobbing while watching Horrible Histories and gushing about Geralt and Ciri. Everyone is Fed Up With Him.
i started thinking about this again but like my gripe with lotr on prime? is that it's on prime by amazon
i'm not like omg we shouldn't have adaptations of anything. my entire opinion on adaptations is that we should have more of them! if I want to watch ten different versions of Jane Eyre, I can. I don't think it should be that different with Tolkien's works. (especially where he has so many events that are fascinating to expand on)
I honestly would love to see another lotr movie series or tv series. I would love an animated lotr and silmarillion and hobbit animated series that all work together (with music!)
what I'm upset about is that amazon literally has stated that the reason for their "content" is to get people to subscribe to amazon prime so that they will then want to get the "most from their money" and just buy a ton of stuff on amazon. and the company is rushing to try to monopolise pretty much every aspect of the usa (and expanding more and more into other countries). to be the source of entertainment, food, goods, and work for people, and of course to be rooted deeply in the government.
(side note I just watched an anti amazon documentary that was playing in the er and I was like good!!! because it was wildly manipulative in how it used music and everything like most documentaries are, but the information was solid)
they push out "content" to be "content" more so than art because they want to be streaming the /most/ movies and shows, without regard at all to quality (this is not unique to amazon, but my gripe with hollywood is too big to go all in about)
this is a deeply, deeply evil company with the goal to continue to become stronger and stronger. they skirt around the word monopoly because they don't want people to worry about them. they try to make themselves feel like one of the family :) with alexa and push products that are actively destroying our environment. the working conditions are inhumane to the point of death over and over, and they try to push that away with look how cool we are! :) it's just like star trek! you love star trek!
with the rings of power they're going you love lotr! :) we make lotr content for you! :) subscribe to amazon and buy more things so you feel like you're getting what you pay for (by spending more money) and with that they continue to put other business out of business so that they get a larger and larger share of the market
i'd feel the same way if wal mart or disney were making something like this. because it's literally just amazon throwing enough money around to grab at whatever people love and try to associate it with their company so that people will love them. it's like oh lotr is so popular and people love it so much let's make a series /exclusive/ to prime so then we'll get more subscribers and they're going to associate /us/ with their happy lotr feelings and also here's evil bad Sauron! >:( we know what the enemy looks like and it isn't us :)
like of course people are going to want to watch this. and talk about it. even if they pirate it they're going to want to talk about it and then their friends might not pirate it but instead subscribe to prime and it's just a mess because it's /exclusive/ to prime meaning you can't even just like... buy it.
like i can and have bought the lotr dvds. to watch this you'd need to keep your subscription to prime. like if this becomes your favourite show? I think amazon sells its original content as like online streaming so you don't have to pay every single month for prime, but you'd still have to keep your amazon account and you wouldn't own a physical copy or even a file. (I'm not even sure if they let you buy some things) and of course they want you to pay every single month for prime
anyway my gripe is they continue to use people's love for stories to mask how they are actively hurting people. they push more and more for being in control of... everything
(i swear they're going to use the rings of power and the three elf rings to somehow market their neighbourhood ring camera "security" system.)
also they are actively destroying the environment for profit which is literally everything that tolkien's work is against
in summary, I actually want more adaptations. I have entire gripes with movie rights and copyrights that I won't get into here because it's too long, but it sums up to I'm sick of only rich people being able to do anything. and also I hope Disney dies. (words cannot express how much I hate and have always hated Disney) stories should not be held hostage for only the rich to be able to play with. adaptations of stories is literally just most of human existence in how we relate to the world. and I hate amazon for being so evil and using all its evilly obtained money to pretend to be good and friendly by making things that will make people feel warm and happy inside
don't reblog but you can repost (and rephrase) something if it strikes you
i'm v sick and i have no energy to even remotely find the sources on these bc a bunch of it is literally just interviews with important ppl in the company :/