May 5, 2022
genuinely wondering if fictional media will ever portray covid as something that happened, what with characters masked up, sanitizer bottles everywhere when they weren’t before, etc. doesn’t have to be a plot point, just. something that says it’s happened / is happening. like obviously no one has to, and we all enjoy our shows just fine without, but. Idk, covid is a major part of our history now, it feels weird that no fiction has acknowledged it so far
( or maybe something has and I haven’t seen it, in which case, drop it here please! I wanna see )
#and yes I realize that it’s only been a little over two years and that’s not a lot of time in terms of creating a piece of fiction#so this isn’t me going ‘why hasn’t it happened yet’ but more wondering when / if it ever will#especially considering the climate of things#i wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of big name producers and publishers especially just wanna continue on as tho it never happened in th#e first place#and then there was that whole thing where people were getting pissed at others who WERE writing things with Covid#and like idk what the whole thing there was but I think it was because Covid was being treated like some comedic haha situation?#but I think for a lot of people that translated into ‘don’t write anything with it ever’#idk#obviously treat the situation with respect with how you write it#but it just doesn’t sit right with me when everyone’s saying ‘don’t make any fictional content with it completely’#we can’t and we shouldn’t erase it#and if someone says ‘I’m going to create a piece of fiction where covid exists’ then please. just fucking let them#idk. I have more thoughts on this than I originally thought I guess
