A Near Miss

one of my professors, a historian who has been interviewed as an expert in various documentaries, said that the secret to documentaries is saying something very obvious, as slowly as possible. for example, if you say “the romans…….. enjoyed their dinner parties” or "being a gladiator... was... very... dangerous" then the filmmakers can get that clip and immediately pan over some cool pictures of mosaics or something. this has forever changed the way i view documentaries

strange, weird media made by neurodivergent people with unconventional formatting and storytelling methods delivered in a way that is almost unintelligible but in a cool way is worth more to me than any marvel movie could ever hope to be. if you disagree with this no you dont

we need more people making content that is absurd and awesome and unreal and fucky ok. we need more people making content that could never appeal to a ‘mainstream audience’ not for anything controversial in the work itself but because of how fucking nuts it is and having that content revel in it. we need more pieces of media that feels like you’re going into a different dimension but not in an immersive worldbuilding way you’re just like sitting there looking at it saying Oh my god how does this person even think. and not in a cringe psychology psychoanalyzing way but you’re just wondering how someone did this. we need more content that is just like a complete unfiltered vision put out by more people who don’t care about how others perceive it and just having it be unabashedly cool. we need more stories conveyed through obtuse ways and most of all we need disney to go bankrupt. do whatever you want Because the internet will let you

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.