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I’m not “media illiterate” for wanting important character development to be shown on screen, whether verbally or visually.
I’m not “media illiterate” for wanting the lore that was introduced to be actually developed, regardless of the fact that the show is “character-based.”
I’m not “media illiterate” for wanting more than ONE character of the cast to be focused on.
I’m not “media illiterate” for calling out wasted potential
this is what AI 'artists' think drawing is
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daily affirmations: no body hate you. everybody niceys
If you are currently sitting or laying down this moment ask yourself if you are resting or rotting. Change your behavior accordingly
There is no romance in decay when the decaying is easy
You are naught but pawns in my game
I hope some of y'all take this as a sign to rest intentionally too.
if you're "resting" but thinking of all the things you have to do, that's not resting, that's rotting. Even if you haven't done anything all day, give yourself some time to rest and truly relax. When you let yourself relax guilt free, you actually regain energy for your responsibilities.
this post has helped me a number of times since I first saw it. I have realized I was rotting instead of resting, and depending on the circumstance, got up to do something, or settled more comfortably to actually rest.
Thank you.
"rot or rest" sounds like the world's worst game show
It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again
and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!
Additional reminder that this kind of self censorship makes it harder for people to block content they do not want to see.
my partner doesn’t use pet names nearly as much as i do, which is very funny because i will crack my gay little knuckles and say some shit like “good morning my sun and moon, my loveliest boy, my baby my sweetheart my darling dearest” and he will reply “hello adrian”
chinese high-end business war by 双面笑笑
I want this as a long ass show where every episode's this
Gritty Detective Fiction: There's been a murder 🚬🏚🌧
Cozy Mystery Fiction: There's been a murder ☕️🤔🏡☀️
Intense birdwatcher: there's been a murder 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🔭😀
do you ever find something that is so funny and you want to share it with everyone but it also requires 18 layers of context spanning things like. 90s anime. aviation history. europop. canada. in order to even remotely understand why it is so funny
in the late 90s there was an anime called initial d which was all about street racing and drifting. naturally every single drift was played for great drama and excitement.
in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.
in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."
what is a side-slip, you ask?
it's drifting.
the guy goddamn drifted his 767.
in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.
and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:
I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.
^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.
happy autism awareness day to all the girls who had “ friends” growing up who were actually bullying them . to the girls who always sat alone in the grass and wondered why nobody wanted to talk . to the girls who spoke to animals like they were listening . to the girls who created a little world in their room . to the girls who always felt ashamed for how deeply they love things and how passionately they enjoyed media . to the girls who covered their ears when they were overwhelmed by everything . to the girls who carrying a special thing around to feel safe . to the girls who never understood what they did wrong to feel so lonely . to the girls who were diagnosed later in life because they weren’t little boys who liked trains. you are so special and beautiful and you’re not worse for it, you love deeply and that is so wonderful please never try to push that down . I LOVE YOU !!!!!
hey guys where do you think Stranger Things first premiered
anyways did you guys know within the same 10 year time frame, we got every single Harry Potter film
and then in even LESS time we got the entirety of House MD which was an 8-season show with an average release map of 20-25 episodes (40 min long each) per season per *year*
so yeah anyone who says that it makes total sense actually for Stranger Things to have gone on this long and for the child actors to now be old enough to have kids of their own are just flat out full of it and are probably under the age of 16 because they don't remember what TV used to be like (or literally weren't there to experience it before it turned into whatever the fuck Netflix has turned it into)
TV used to actually be TV, not overtuned movie franchises with new installments released in chunks every half decade
this cultural amnesia of what TV used to be btw is precisely why we get articles praising The Bear for their "incredibly fast production schedule" and people wondering how they're so good at putting out episodes on such an efficient schedule
like gee idk maybe it has to do with the fact that The Bear is filmed across like 1-3 recurring locations and every location is just a room in a building
or the fact that The Bear features regular people in a regular kitchen environment with a focus put on the writing and editing to create the drama
or the fact that The Bear doesn't require as much post-production editing because it doesn't employ gratuitous amounts of CGI
or maybe just the simple fact that The Bear knows it's a fucking TV show and knows it isn't productive to keep audiences waiting 4+ years for a new season made up of 4-6 films
like what The Bear is doing isn't unique, it's not "new", it's literally just what television used to be. We're deadass just not used to it anymore because TV has become this binging marathon where we sit and watch 4 episodes for 12+ hours straight.
yes Stranger Things is a different genre from The Bear, it's obviously going to require a different workload and different accommodations and it has unique and different challenges to face in its production
but it's absolutely not the first show of its kind, we owe the success of shows like Stranger Things to the shows that came before - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Doctor Who, the list goes on - and all of those shows that ran so Stranger Things could crawl at a glacial pace were capable of being produced similarly to shows like The Bear - with effective writing and camera work that pushed the limits of their set designs, and practical effects that could make up for what they couldn't achieve with CGI (either because it just wasn't viable enough yet or because it wasn't worth the expense).
the real irony here is that Stranger Things is supposed to be an 80's-reminiscent show, and yet it couldn't be further from the philosophies of 80's television that gave us the formats of modern TV and its cultural environment that both Stranger Things and its predecessors owe their legacies to
TV used to be this sort of liminal space where you could kick off your shoes after work / school and watch 20-40 minutes of your show in between your other obligations like making dinner, doing homework, working on other hobbies, and self-care
movies, on the other hand, were a special occasion, you either went to the theaters to fully indulge in a feature length film that was usually at least 90 minutes (but not always, some would be as little as 70-80) or you rented a VHS/DVD to watch at home for some uninterrupted family time
and while TV definitely had its own host of problems as an attention-whoring device, streaming productions like Stranger Things have really managed to find the next exploitation in the attention economy - by turning TV into a whole ass movie marathon that takes longer to get through per season than watching the entire uncut Lord of the Rings trilogy or a single 25-episode season of House MD
and not because it necessarily has more to offer - but because every episode demands your attention for 2-4 times as long as the norm of what used to be expected out of TV, and every season has a production cycle that somehow manages to take longer than it would have taken them to just make a fucking movie
i'm sorry b/c this really turned into an "old man yells at cloud" rant but it's just absolutely insane to me how much we've lost the plot of what TV is and what it was specifically designed for - quick, manageable hits of entertainment that weren't as demanding of your time and attention as movies. that was it. that was the whole appeal. and Netflix has convinced people to pay $10-$20+/month just to wait for their TV content because they decided TV should be a bunch of back-to-back movies now
we let this happen
we all let this happen
we have just as much of ourselves to blame as we do the corporate entities that took the simple and elegant concept of TV away from us
because we (as a society) keep paying for it and waiting for it until it eventually decides to give us what we were paying and waiting for
and i can't help but feel with how successful and profitable these shows wind up being in spite of the criticisms people have to make of them, there's never going to be a way back to what we lost
we thought we were just cutting our monthly cable bill but what we were really cutting was an essential limb of entertainment culture that's now being threatened by Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix Reddit Netflix Netflix and their two favorite dimwits with beards and plain t-shirts who collectively call themselves "the Duffer Brothers"
There’s an old interview with Sylvester McCoy from the mid-90s where he reflects of how his tenure on ‘Doctor Who’ was treated. Him and Colin baker had notably shorter seasons than their predecessors, 13-14 episodes instead of 20-26, and McCoy noted how because they weren’t on air for as long as other TV Shows they couldn’t get the same build up of an audience tuning in regularly every week. I noted a similar issue with Ncuti Gatwa’s run (which itself was halved again to 8 episodes) where it felt like the season was over after it just got started. McCoy’s era was also sabotaged by irregular premieres, which is an issue because, as McCoy noted, “Audiences are lazy” and if you don’t have a show on regularly then it’ll be forgotten about, only the die hard fans will follow it and the casual fans and casual viewers will leave it behind.
Irregularly released short streaming-bomb show releases do all this and more. A 20-26 episode season released weekly could gain traction and build up; they’d often premiere fairly late in the year, take a short break around Christmas, resume in January then finish their season before Summer because people are gonna want to enjoy the extra day-light. Streaming shows are released all at once so they don’t get any build up, only anticipation, there’s no discussion after eventful episodes because we already have the following episode right now so eventful moments don’t get to sit with us, discussion isn’t focussed on the smaller moments because why bother when we have the bigger picture right now? And because of how streaming skewed ratings and the fear of social media spoiling something there’s an audience-side incentive to get through the season as fast as possible. We can’t take our time and enjoy a series, we need to get through it in one sitting so we can use Twitter of all sites, so streaming services cater to that by making seasons shorter. 12 episodes! No, 10 episodes! 8 episodes! 6 episodes! Shorter and shorter seasons that keep you watching by literally not finishing a plot-line by seasons end because “how else will we keep audiences hooked?” and so shows start feeling hollower because they aren’t allowed to do as much anymore.
Streaming is kinda proving its value (or lack there of) by raising prices and re-introducing commercial breaks to turn a profit, which has people whining because streaming had this unspoken promise of “no ads,” which was never going to go well because the TV Commercial break was arguably one of the most important parts of the film and TV eco-system. Networks could turn a profit and show you all kinds of stuff that might interest you. “Here’s a highlight reel of this new show thats gonna be airing soon.” TV doesn’t get that anymore, the most advertising a show can afford anymore is the thumbnail on the site itself, so is it any wonder why original programming is dying out and being replaced by reboots and revivals of shows that already did the hard work of advertising to you 15-25 years ago!?
A show being on air for longer keeps it in the public consciousness for just as long, if not longer. Not having to wait years for the next season will ensure the audience won’t forget about the show and leave it behind. You may be getting bigger reactions because the whole thing is out now but it will fade just as quickly.
Big bombs are destructive. Slow burns are effective.
feminist retelling shoulsnt be the woman does some girlboss shit femist retelling is she does the same stuff except u actually give a shit abt her perspective and thoughts and feelings as a human being this time
important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are
reblog if you're also lame and weird.
Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy
Damn, that's useful
Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!
tags by @gallusrostromegalus
OH HELL THE FUCK YES
