#flix rambles

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Guys I think Grian likes annoying Gem

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My all-time favourite thing about why so much is possible in fanart and fanfic is simply the "yes, and-" mentality of creativity!

Like another PHM example but Bloodymary looks insane or absurd to those who have never understood or gotten in contact with shipping culture, the Coltland twins looks like a farfetched idea as well. But fanfic and fanart makes it work! It's taking canon, shaking it up a bunch and making it work by literally continuously going "yes, and-" on anything. Which leads to these amazing solutions, or headcanons or narrative conventions — where so much creativity is put in at all times.

Like two lonely men lost in space? Yeah here's like 8 ways they could potentially find or rescue each other! Oh... two characters played by the same actor that are so vastly different it shouldn't make sense and what little we know of one of them is that he barely has anyone on earth? Yeah either seperated by birth or estranged. Joined by the hip at first, but their differences made them grow apart. Let's make it extra angsty shall we? Does Ryland return? Who knows, that's up to the writer's interpretation.

Oh and also here's some really really cool imagery and use of symbolism in this fanart- and would you look at that they do work a lot better as twins if you pose them that way in this little 4 panel comic-

Fandom creativity is unparalleled because it takes something, gets molded into whatever and no one bats an eye because everyone goes "yes, and-" and that's how fancanon and certain headcanons become popular and get picked up by everyone (I.E. common design features for Minecraft folks) and how people then derive and go "yes, and-" on those fancanons as well.

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I love falling into the niche of both the Coltland twins and the Bloodymary concept it's phenomenal to see all the art~ I haven't really touched the fanfics yet myself but that's also because I am trying to write my own PHM fanfic without getting too much influence from others :) [you can find that fic here]

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I feel like not enough people understand that Stratt also essentially gave her life and freedom for the mission.

Like yeah she'd stay on earth and get to live but from understanding even basic politics and the fact she literally says she has expected and basically accepted she'd end up in jail (and likely for LIFE with a heavy heavy sentence) she's also sacrificing herself with every action. The movie nudge towards this detail even more kinda like pushes it in that direction but that woman may not have given up her actual life but she still has given up a lot. And sometimes you can wonder if that is a fate worse than dying.

Because she can only hope that what she has given so much of her time and effort for will save earth. She's a person that apparently felt a need to act. While from inside the prison she can only see the world go to shit, to hunger, to war and murder. And she can only hope. Can only hope she made the right guess, that the drugs for Grace worked and he wouldn't sabotage or kill the mission if they even made it, that the blood on her hands and the five lives lost for that ship to go lightyears were worth it. She sees it all, and she cares a little more than she is willing to admit in words. Yet she is stonecold hard, in her ways, in what she thinks must be done for the greater good of humanity.

Like her moral compass is so straight-forward yet also sooooo intensely complicated between the lines! Especially if you consider the background she gives Grace in the book before telling him he's going. If he wants to or not. I can continue to write about her for hours bc it's. so. interesting.

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The funniest thing is finding out through a friend that read Project Hail Mary in Dutch that they translated Stratt's last name when in the BOOK CANON SHE'S DUTCH-

THEY MADE IT "STRAAT" Which literally fucking translates to street- you have got to be kidding me LMAO

(For the record: Stratt is a very German last name. Now, German last names aren't uncommon here per se, but it is kinda funny to find out they made her last name more Dutch in the Dutch translation of the book. The double vowel instead of the double consonant is very Dutch, and I did frown a little when I read she was Dutch at that last name and thought Andy Weir got it confused with German as so many people do... but then the book actively mentioned Germans so that couldn't necessarily be the case... (as well as him saying in an interview Eva Stratt in the book is from the Netherlands) anyway, point stands; still funny)

Sincerely, A Dutch person

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Sheep Detectives was NOT the film I had expected it to be. It's wildly emotional for a family film about TALKING SHEEP WITH HUGH JACKMAN.

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The charity stream did make me certain of the fact Grian, Gem and Bdubs are three of my favourite sillies ever.

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I did not just see an article bashing BBC's Ghosts Captain and how his queerness is portrayed-

imo it's done so well and so nice and it's not any of the negative words people are fitting on it.

Not all queer rep has to be very explicit! Or running the same stereotype for that matter! Queerness is not just one thing, and seeing a different take on it in BBC Ghosts was so so SO NICE.