ash (he/him)

the annoying thing about the internet’s obsession with and portrayal of “media literacy” is that ppl act like it is some immutable skill that you just do or do not have. your reading and understanding of a text is determined not only by your personal context, experiences, knowledge, view of things, so on and so forth, but also even just how engaged you are with and how much attention you gave it for whatever reason. people whose analysis and opinions i greatly respect and find rich and incredible about a certain work may completely drop the ball on another one for simply these reasons

defending the cringe pop culture attempts at slang in tvl by proposing it’ll be a nice time capsule 25 years from now when we’re rewatching and i turn to my partner and say Babe aww they just said “Cheugy” remember that 2 month span where people said that? oh look they said Labubu remember that singular month when people were buying those? and the life-size scarecrow in bed next to me that i’ve stitched to look like hudson williams doesn’t say anything because its mouth is fabric

love it when people are acting naive/obtuse, like i just saw popular tweet "why s1 of iwtv is the only one that doesn't have perfect rating on rotten tomatoes, i felt like it was the best one?". like, dude, the answer is anti-black racism. the show was review bombed. look at the comments under the trailer for s1, it's mostly racists hating on jacob. obviously reviews for s2 & s3 are mostly from the fans of the show! how long people can play ignorant and ask these questions, we all know why & we need to call it out instead.