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Episode 7: Sophomore Slump

We’re in a slump ourselves.  

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! In this episode we talk about sequels that fell flat. Flat Stanley Flat.

Mentioned in this Episode

Movies/Shows

Avengers: Endgame, John Wick 3, Always Be My Maybe, Tuca & Bertie, BoJack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Chambers, The Order, Immortals, The Society, The OA, Big Little Lies, The Inventor, Watchmen, Westworld, Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, Games of Thrones: The Last Watch, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Veep, ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’, The Batman, Cosmopolis, Guava Island, Killing Eve, Lion King 2, Pocahontas 2, Mulan 2, Lion King 1/2, Aladdin (2019), Spider-Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Vampire Diaries, Gilmore Girls, Buffy, True Blood, Sons of Anarchy, Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Heroes, Twin Peaks, Peaky Blinders, Parks and Rec, Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, My So-Called Life, High School Musical 2, Cheetah Girls 2, Mad Max: The Fury Road, Firefly, The Covenant

Music

Cellophane by FKA Twigs

Books & Comics

Coyote DogGirl by Lisa Hanawalt, Twilight: New Moon by Stephanie Meyer, Life of Pi by Yann Martel,  The Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard, The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Put Me On

A Song of Ice and Fire: Audiobook 

The Houses of Westeros

Quiz Video ‘The Kazoo’

You Are a Bada** by Jen Sincero

[ruinedchildhood]

#she did that

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Episode 6: Big, Blue and Beautiful

The ocean is too darn big. It’s no wonder Marlin couldn’t find Nemo. Sheesh.

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! In this episode we talk about our nerdy love for nature documentaries! Skip ahead to 50 minutes to get to the good stuff (Nature Doc Talk) 

Mentioned in this Episode

Movies/Shows

Little, Us, The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image, The Twilight Zone (2019), Homecoming (Beyoncé), The Lion King (2019), Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Akira, The Eternals, Lara Croft, Salt, Chewing Gum, Crazyhead, Super Simple Love Story, Guava Island, Cinderella (1997) (2004) (2015) (Sony), A Naked Singularity, Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker, Veep, 10 Things I Hate About You, Sylvie, Hustlers, Oceans Eight, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Big Mouth, Love, Death and Robots, Blue Planet, Blue Planet II, Life, Our Planet, Planet Earth, Planet Earth II, Frozen Planet, Ponyo

Music

Solange, Old Town Road (Lil Nas x Billy Ray Cyrus)

Books & Comics

Book inspired by ‘The Deep’, Low

The YeeHaw Agenda

Put Me On

Films made by Black Women! 

Eternal Sunshine

[kyloren]

Jon Snow in Game of Thrones 7x05 “Eastwatch” (2017) | | Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III in How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

[kedreeva]

When I say “Fanfiction is free” part of what I’m saying is yes, you did not pay for the thing.

But I saw a comment from someone that made me realize the rest of the intention behind these words is being lost.

Fanfiction is provided for free, but it is not produced for free.

Authors pay their effort, including physical and emotional and mental. Authors pay their time, in planning the story (mental time) and writing the story (physical time). Sometimes it’s less than an hour for something quick and dirty, like askbox prompts. Sometimes it’s years of their lives in epic fic hundreds of thousands of words long. Authors pay additional time to alpha read their own stories, trying to make sure that they’re free of SPAG errors and make sense and sound good. Beta readers pay their time and effort alongside the authors for editing the stories. Authors pay for posting their stories with all of the anxieties that come from allowing their work - which to this point they have invested all of the above - into the public eye because while it has certainly cost them a good amount to produce the story, fandom history has proved that many other people out there enjoy fanfiction, and authors believe that at least someone else will enjoy their story, too.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that it costs the writers a lot of something in order to produce it. A lot has already been paid into a piece of fanfiction by the time it is available for readers to read. The expense of fanfiction creation is, by and large, resting squarely atop the shoulders of writers.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay the cost of creating fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay in anything - not time, not money, not effort, not anything - in order for fanfiction to be created. It’s a donation. It’s a gift. It’s available for you to take or leave, at the expense of someone else.

Writers have, for a very long time, requested donations of one thing as remuneration for everything they put into making fanfiction: comments. Authors have asked, in so many different iterations: “If you have consumed what I have labored and invested in to create and if you have found any enjoyment in it, please tell me, so that I can recharge enough to do this again.” Some of them may recharge on critical comments, but most of us don’t because we’ve already paid everything we want to pay to create the story.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” isn’t just that it doesn’t cost you any money. I am saying “Please respect the time and effort you didn’t have to pay into creating this thing you enjoyed, by respecting the individual creator’s requests.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “be kind to authors, they have paid a lot for this gift they’re sharing with all of us, and they deserve to feel like it was worth it.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t charge authors more time and emotional effort than what they’ve already provided you at no absolute cost.”

I’m not saying any of this to argue. It’s a fact that authors pay into providing fanfiction. They do it for fun. They do it out of love. They do it because they enjoy writing. No one is making them do it. No one is paying them to start or finish the story. That doesn’t mean it’s not WORK. And the only return they get on what they put into the story is the kindness of strangers that invest a little bit back by leaving a nice comment. That is why they stay, that is why they do it again, that is why we have fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t be the one charging authors so much more that they leave.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please keep it that way.”

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Episode 5.2: Litertary Adaptations

He’s DaOne™

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! In this episode we wrap up our talk of Black Panther with a deep dive on the comics and a chat about fanfic and other literary adaptations!

Mentioned in this Episode

Books & Comics

Jungle Tales, Fantastic Four (Comic), Panther’s Rage, Black Panther Book 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, World of Wakanda, Killmonger

Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own (AO3), Wattpad

WakandaCon

Put Me On

The Black Youth Project 100

Black Trans Media

Trans Women of Color Collective

Audre Lorde Project

Baltimore Transgender Alliance

Libby

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BONUS 1: Buss Down GoTianna

It’s time to play a game of thrones. 

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GoT is BACK people! Get ready. In this bonus episode we discuss our predictions for the final season of Game of Thrones. Godspeed, for the night is dark and full of terrors.

Mentioned in this Episode

Game of Thrones. Duh.

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Episode 5.1: Lord Give Me The Strength (of de Blek Penther)

I think we all have a lot to say.

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! In this episode we talk all things Black Panther! In part one we talk current events, award show nonsense, and the movie magic of Black Panther. 

Mentioned in this Episode

Movies/Shows

Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Superman, The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Umbrella Academy, Jesus Was My Homeboy, All That (Remake), Ma, Us, Hannibal, Black Earth Rising, Chewing Gum, The Twilight Zone (Remake), Black Mirror, Men in Black: International, Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, Arrow, Turn Up Charlie, The Best of Enemies, Black Panther, Little, Iron Man, Captain America, Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming

Music

Boasty (feat. Idris Elba), Kacey Musgraves

Books

The Outsider (Read by Will Patton)

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Kiki

[vital-information]

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hiyao Miyazaki

[nat-portman]

When you’re old, all you want to do is stare at the scenery. It’s so strange. I’ve never felt so peaceful before.

Howl’s Moving Castle  |  ハウルの動く城 (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[thecartoonarchivist]

On This Day In History

On January 5, 1941, Hayao Miyazaki was born. He is the creative force behind many notable masterpieces such as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and many, many others. Many regard him as one of the greatest animation directors in history.

Today, he turns 78 years old.

Happy Birthday to such a creative genius!

[baptizm-deactivated20200524]

Happy Birthday to the guy who made me get into storytelling when I was a child

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Episode 4: Mr. Miyazaki

The man is a genius.  

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! In this episode we talk all things Miyazaki! 

Mentioned in this Episode

Movies/Shows

The Adventures of Hols, Prince of the Sun, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Animal Treasure Island, The Flying Ghost Ship, Gulliver's Space Travel, Panda! Go Panda!, Puss in Boots, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, The Wind Rises, Never-Ending Man

Books & Comics

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Howl’s Moving Castle, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Monstress

Put Me On

The Gospel According to Andre

MET Resource

Earliest Depiction of Black Love (A Kiss)

I Was a Cable Guy

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Episode 3.2: Where is (Black) Love?

Yes I’m still talking about frogs. #BlackLove

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! In part two of our Black Love episode we give you a timeline of black love on screen and chat about our hopes and dreams for black love stories in the future.

Mentioned in this Episode

Movies/Shows

Carmen Jones, Claudine, She's Gotta Have it (1986) & (2017), A Different World, Poetic Justice, Jason's Lyric, Love Jones, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Best Man, Love and Basketball, Girlfriends, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, Brown Sugar, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Beyond the Lights, Noah's Arc, Fences, Moonlight, Insecure, If Beale Street Could Talk, Rafiki, How to Get Away With Murder, Scandal, Being Mary Jane, Power, Empire, Nappily Ever After, Why Did I Get Married?, The Cosby Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Black Lightning, Set It Off, Black Panther, Cinderella

Music

Ella Fitzgerald, Mary J Blige, The Carters, India Arie, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, Janelle Monae, Kanye West, Bruno Mars, Khalid, The Jackson 5, The Temptations, JohnnySwim, Leon Bridges, Alicia Keys, Jazmine Sullivan, Lauryn Hill

Black Love Tropes Playlist (Spotify)  

Books & Authors

Zane & Purple Panties, Toni Morrison, Nayyirah Waheed, Alysia Harris, Jasmine Mans, Song for Anninho by Gayl Jones, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (Listen to an interview w/her on The Nod Podcast) , Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas 

Put Me On

The Belles

We Need Diverse Books

Yalitza Aparicio Tweet

Naked Attraction

Everyone is Talking About Moonlight but Our Interview is the Best

Black Panther back in Theaters! 

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Episode 3.1: To Barry, with Love

Barrenger Jenkins: The Story of a Scorpio

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Welcome back to This is Not Real! Happy Black History Month!!! In the first part of this two part special, we talk a bit about current events and Barry Jenkins!

Mentioned in this Episode

Movies/Shows

Redline, Queen Sugar, Detroit, Pose, Fyre Fraud, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, Steven Universe, The Ted Bundy Tapes, You, Parks & Recreation, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, Siempre Bruja, My Josephine, Medicine for Melancholy, Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk

Music & Podcasts

Rebellion In Detroit, Still Processing, Serial

Books & Plays

If Beale Street Could Talk, In Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue

[neverthere12345]

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Body Cam focuses on several LAPD police officers who are haunted by a malevolent spirit that is tied to the murder of a black youth at the hands of two white cops, all of which are caught on a body cam video that was destroyed in a cover-up.

[rootbeergoddess]

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[afloweroutofstone]

FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR REVENGE MOVIE AGAINST MURDEROUS COPS

[mikeymagee]

John Boyega, Letitia Wright to Star in Sci-Fi Love Story 'Hold Back The Stars'

Mike Cahill, the filmmaker behind the 2014 sci-fi drama 'I Origins,' will direct.

THE KING AND QUEEN OF SCI FI ARE COMING FOR EVERYBODY’S WIGS!!!!