Obsidian Musings

media literacy includes understanding why a media product was made, to whom it's being sold, and the assumed preferences of its marketing demographic. narrative is not produced or sold in a vacuum.

you might be totally correct that your ship would be narratively satisfying. I don't know, I'm not watching your show. Whether your ship is likely to happen on the show is a whole different question to whether it's satisfying, because the show is being sold to Netflix or Amazon or the BBC, and they are purchasing a show they think they can market to a particular demographic and that demographic isn't you, the nightmarishly online tumblr user. The show is being made for marketability to a constructed average viewer. It is being funded with that audience in mind. This art is being made to commission, and commissioned art is art, but at some point you have to stop expecting the Church to commission a statue of Lucifer fucking St Michael. It might be narratively satisfying, but that's just not what they're paying for.

This episode shone a much-deserved and heartfelt spotlight on Wally “the Flash” West and one of my TOP THREE EPISODES, not just because of smart-mouthed cinnamon roll Wally but also Batman’s CLEAR respect for Wally and his methods throughout the entire episode.  As well as his low-key envy at how much the Flash is beloved and respected by his city’s people. Defends Wally from Orion MULTIPLE TIMES.  I love this Flash so much but seriously guys DCAU Batman is THE BEST BATMAN.

reblogging this as I was just complaining about the rampant AI usage on pinterest yesterday lol

Even if you're not an artist, I highly recommend signing up just to lurk because it's been such a lovely wholesome experience free of the noise and brainrot that comes with the ads and reels on instagram. As a writer I think it has a niche for connecting authors with cover designers and illustrators. I'm documenting my experience in this thread if anyone wants to follow along!

you’re phillip buckley. you and your wife are considering splitting up. you receive two emails over the course of some weeks. your son invites you to the funeral of the man who raised him in your stead. it’d be a four hour drive maybe. you choose not to go. you drink some wine. then your daughter sends you an email announcing the birth of her second child who is named after the same man that raised your son. the same dead man. you know that no child will ever be named after you. you know that it’s what you deserve.

you’re phillip buckley and you witness your son receive the greatest gift he could ever ask for (his captain believed in him a year ago) and there’s an expression on his face you’ve never seen. you once thought you knew what he looked like happy; bruised and rough around the edges with an ice cream cone in his hand. now you see that it was never joy, it was transaction. you’ll never see that face on him. you’ll never elicit that look after you’re gone.

bobby matchmaking from beyond the grave. buck comparing eddie leaving for texas to his parents getting divorced. buck comparing eddie coming home to a family fighting to stay together. bobby matchmaking from beyond the grave. eddie being so worried about buck's parents getting divorced and trying to get him to talk about it. buck shopping for cowboy hats on the couch with eddie and chris as maddie complains to chimney about her parents. bobby matchmaking from beyond the grave. buck's biological father acknowledging that bobby helped raise buck. christopher saying divorce is always hardest on the kids and eddie seeing his life flash before his eyes. BOBBY MATCHMAKING FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!!!!!