look you knew this was coming. i saw a few people add heat waves over hoseoks insta pics and woww. there is really no better fit than this bands sound and jhope. its dancy af,it sounds like hoseoks fashion and insta looks like, its realistic its disillusioned but still spunky. anyway. hoseok,make this kind of music pls (if you want to)
we have enough hope,lets see some of that 'jimin do your dishes now or youll regret it' kind of jhope too
completely took over an industry that was already restricted by nepotism and wealth and privilege and made it even harder for any new or creative or diverse ideas to be made and convinced millions of people that having lots of cgi is good cinema so now everything is so polished and shiny and ugly and soulless but still has this unearned cult of worship surrounding it so NOBODY can dare point out the military propaganda or bare minimum diversity or frankly bland filmmaking because if you do you're just a loser and it doesn't matter if you're a movie lover who just wants new and different content or martin scorcese because marvel has completely taken over cinema and criticism is not allowed because how DARE people not give a shit about iron man or loki and there's no need for decent characterisation or complex themes because it's easier to just make villains that are like "capitalism is bad...and also MURDERING CHILDREN IS OKAY!!!" so you can put out your sloppy storylines and make people think it's the morally righteous thing to do to pay money to watch every single one of your sequels and spin offs and reboots and whenever people start to complain about how the film and tv industry is becoming a husk of repetition you just shove benedict cumberbatch in the next spiderman movie or whatever because how can people be mad that we're making sure we're slowing sucking life out of the moving image when we're doing such fun crossovers? and of course all these crossovers are SO important so you have to watch all fifty movies and twenty shows and thirty spinoffs to understand anything else in our universe and you're damn sure we're going to be releasing the next thing as soon as the other is out of theatres or is out of episodes because we CANNOT have people straying and finding media that isn't owned by us at least not until our parent company has bought out that media as well because absolutely everything has to be disney and WE'RE the powerhouse right now and you are never going to escape it and if you want your work to get any kind of support or funding then you better hope you're lucky, know someone rich or with connections, or it features captain america because otherwise you can get fucked but don't worry sometimes we have movies abpout women too so we're actually a #girlboss cinematic universe and if you don't like the stuff we make then you HATE WOMEN and you HATE CINEMA and you HATE PEOPLE BEING HAPPY and originality and creativity is a myth and you're either with us or against us but if you're not with us prepare to find us following you all the fucking time anyway because you are NOT allowed to have interests outside of the MCU we are everywhere and either you will watch spiderloki 58: captain marvel: the revenge of environmentalists or we will fucking kill you ourselves
From this article - https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-very-real-decline-of-all-we-hold-dear-as-told-through-the-progressively-shittier-spider-man-movies
“One or two bad movies does not make for an inflection point in these troubled times, true. But there is something about this accumulated slippage of quality, and the emotions and ideas presented to us, that reflects something cheaper in the culture. We have been awash in remakes of nerd shit for nearly all of the 21st century, and the loop between past and present grows tighter. Every couple of years, they give Ghostbusters another shot; three actors have played Spider-Man in the last 15 years; the charming and seminal Disney cartoons become laughably crappy live-action interpretations; there’s a fucking sequel to The Shining, which climaxes with the phantasms of the Overlook Hotel, now in CGI form, showing up to exact vengeance on the film’s villain; they did another Space Jam, one that conceptualized every Warner Bros. movie ever made — The Matrix, Casablanca, Harry Potter, etc. — as existing within the same interconnected metaverse of marketable IP.
The homogenization of Hollywood, and the race to monetize every piece of intellectual property under the sun, is nothing new. In 2017, The Ringer dedicated a week of coverage to “good bad movies,” the zany action movies and hokey dramas that are objectively sort of ass but subjectively enjoyable, and how they no longer exist. More than any referendum on taste or quality, I think what characterizes a good bad movie is the ease with which you can just… watch it. It doesn’t require any prior knowledge, any informed context. Meanwhile the highest grossing movie of 2019 was Avengers: Endgame, a three-hour film that would be completely incoherent without having memorized at least a half-dozen movies before it.
The banal credo of “let people enjoy things” that’s often trotted out to dismiss any criticism of the modern goop that I am complaining about avoids the basic reality that the only people who get to enjoy these things are the ones who don’t need to read up on Wikipedia beforehand. I think of someone like my mom, who could be your mom, or anyone else — a person who just likes to go to the movies, and watch something that doesn’t feel like it was autogenerated by an AI, or something that doesn’t require knowledge of 16 other movies to understand, or something that doesn’t joylessly stretch beyond two hours with no justification. Pleasure should be a democratized pursuit, not exclusively claimed by the nerds. The world gets worse and worse, and the very basic entertainments meant to provide some temporary distraction become more of a punishing, involved experience requiring your fealty the moment you walk into the theater.”
(to op,sorry to derail,it just applies too well to my fandom too...)
“One or two bad movies does not make for an inflection point in these troubled times, true. But there is something about this accumulated slippage of quality, and the emotions and ideas presented to us, that reflects something cheaper in the culture “
“it’s just one english song”
“this is for the fans! it’s made to cheer you up,stop bitching”
“it’s just two english songs”
“it’s just three english songs”
“it’s an anthology album shut up how many artists can get that”
“they just don’t want to release an album they can’t tour,you ungrateful fan,they have worked so hard for you and you still want more?”
wow I forgot I have a blog and also fell out of love with bts for a while but j-hope’s courage,honesty,dope beat and eyeliner, jin’s thirst trap and tae pole dancing brought me back. well I ain’t complaining :D
So many Armys during the past days posting tweet after tweet about how you should stay out of it,educate yourself first,should not spread carrds or information,don’t have to donate unless you “understand” the situation...
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Is putin paying you or what...?
I have not seen any other war where it was so ok not only to say you don’t care,but to actively urge others to not care.
Why? You could just have posted a flag,a “thoughts and prayers” and moved on. I wouldn’t have judged you for it. Or you could have said nothing at all. YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING.
But everyone chose exactly THIS war to talk about “performative activism” and about how you don’t have to make carrds for clout,or you don’t have to care if you’re a minor. Urging people to “just go check official sources”,but rarely actually linking any. And making sure to “educate” others to not donate,because! you might be donating to neo-nazis!
I thought you said to not spread misinfo. I’m pretty sure the links that show up even on official government twitter are legit. Also maybe if it’s the same link and you saw like 10 official journalists posting it too,you can trust it?
Also,you don’t have to donate,but there is some weird motivation in discrediting legitimate requests for help. War is happening. You don’t have to “support it” if you find the idea too barbaric. I mean,I understand the repulsion. Ukrainians would also rather be at home instead of shooting down aircrafts. But war is happening and they have no choice except to fight for their right to remain an independent state. They are not equally matched with Russia’s much bigger military. They received no international help so they are asking for donations in order to be able to defend themselves. They have done so,bravely,for three days already. Kyiv is still standing because they have put up a hell of a fight until now.
If no one seems believable in the sea of comments made by people with foreign unpronounceable names,it’s good to know Ukrainian and Russian don’t even look the same. In the first place,Ukrainian has the “i” letter which Russian doesn’t use. For obvious reasons you won’t even see much russian on the ukrainian side of social media right now.
You keep saying “don’t spread misinformation” and then your next tweet is by some rando who blatantly lies about history,or tries to make it all about America. But he doesn’t have a russian-sounding name,so it’s ok,his version must be the objective unbiased one. Is this how you think it works? How you protect yourself from propaganda? Congrats,you just fell for it,and spread it to the 2000 others who follow your big account.
Or does simply seeing tweets in the scary Russian alphabet make you uncomfy? 80% of those lists of “verified” people to get “unbiased” info from,are just English-speaking blue checkmark journalists or diplomats who cover Moscow. Moscow is not Kyiv.
Why does it always have to be “US says_” for a fact related to a foreign country to be credible?
Kyiv Independent’s twitter has constant updates in English,that’s a good place to start. You can figure it out from there. You won’t die if you follow Ukrainian journalists who also tweet in Ukrainian once in a while. It won’t be sterilized bias-free information,because everyone is human,and emotions are high now,but it won’t be the onslaught of propaganda you’re afraid of. Not anymore that at any other war or protest. But I get the feeling those journalists are too patriotic and too proud of their army for you. They make Ukraine look too good,too strong and too inspiring,and you can’t have that. It’s not “unbiased” enough. It’s not how you were taught Eastern Europe is like.
Does Russia,seen though official Ukraine news,look too much like a cartoon villain? So you feel the need to look for what “the other side” is saying? Maybe Putin is exactly that evil. Maybe you have to accept this is actual reality for any ex-USSR country. There is no “both sides are wrong,we need to be more cautious when talking about this crisis”. Russia is a colonizer. We don’t fucking want to go under them ever again. Hope this helps. Are you looking for your familiar “unbiased”,dictated by those blue checkmarks who don’t even live here, or for Ukraine’s actual history?
Would you say “stay out of it,it’s too complicated” about any other mad dictator trying to kill people because they are a certain ethnicity or nationality? Your problem is that Ukrainians are white,so it surely has to be some other reason. Like that they are neo-nazis (putin lie),that the “separatists” must want independence from the rest of Ukraine (putin lie) or that Russia is just afraid of the US and NATO (true,but not the entire story). You create the misinformation now because the actual reality doesn’t match your neat established worldview. Who gives you the right?
Also about the part where “you can’t do anything”. Maybe your protests could have done something. #WhatUkraineNeeds is a good hashtag to start with to get an idea.
Hey Kas, I’m so sorry about everything that’s happening in Ukraine right now. I’m trying to read about it but all I could find so far were articles and posts written by Americans and videos by Americans, and as you said, they just don’t understand the magnitude of the situation. Do you know any reliable sources that explain what’s happening exactly?
Thank you Jackie and of course I can help you with that. Here a list of reliable Ukrainian sources:
Wikipedia article which explains the whole situation from the 2014
Громадське
The Kyiv Independent
Olga Tokariuk
Melaniya Podolyak
Disarmonia
Terrell Jermaine Starr
Xena
These are the sources that I personally follow, I'm currently working on a couple of posts so I will make this list longer soon.
I think, over the coming days, it's really important to be careful and think critically about what we post and reblog. I think it's important to remember that just as the average person in Ukraine didn't want this, neither did your average, ordinary russian. It's important to consider that some of the paramilitary groups in Ukraine are neo-nazi organisations, so giving them money probably isn't a good idea.
Assuming you can do anything to help or intervene in a very complex situation smacks of imperialism.
Be aware there's going to be a lot of propaganda from both sides.
The one thing that is almost certainly true is that people will be displaced from this conflict, and countries who are posing as supportive of Ukraine will no doubt not be welcoming to Ukrainian refugees (let alone Russian refugees). So if you're looking at this and thinking "I must do something" that might be a good place to start.
This is someone you should NOT reblog from. Look at their entire blog please. IDK is they are really a westerner(in which case they should shut up) or not but “assuming you can do anything to help in a complex situation smacks of imperialism” is,at this particular moment in time,a troll move. People in Ukraine are currently begging for help right now. There are no situations that are not complex,but this one is even pretty straightforward. Westerners can take their philosophy and teatime debates on whether we should be allowed our own countries or not to their private chats,Eastern Europe does not need to see them. And trolls should go straight to hell,I fucking loathe you.
SOME of those links were neo-nazis because someone compiled the list in a hurry. MOST of the other sources are legit and you will find them on any Ukrainian post asking for help. You are spreading disinformation yourself.
“But when I don’t support states existing in general, I’m not going to suddenly throw the weight of my opinion behind the Ukrainian state. I’d argue that’s a consistent anarchist position”
I argue that you should shut up entirely. You are not being neutral but doing putin’s bidding by saying you don’t care about states. People are dying and will fucking die,good to know you don’t care about ‘states existing’ on your cozy little island.
“I’m trying to equally advocate for Ukrainian refugees, and will actively offer them my support if/when I am able to. “
The best way to support is to PREVENT them from becoming refugees,by helping them defend their country.
If there are donation links that are sketchy,cause there always are,and you want to help with the disinformation war,debunk them. But someone else did that already.
Get your troll posts out of here. I bet you wouldn’t talk philosophy about whether your own country should exist or not,when you are the one who is being invaded.
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