crimmson

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Like yes he's generally closed off and pretty emotionally stunted and his tsundere charms have contributed to 90% of his popularity but this man is up there in the top 10 pathetic yearners of all time.

Idk there's this tendency to put him in the "nagging wife" box where he's portrayed as like "Good grief Wright there you go being stupid again I can't believe I'm in love with such an idiot"

which is kind of a disservice to both of them because while Phoenix may have a very unorthodox approach to most things, he's really fucking smart actually(!!). Also even more of a bitch than Edgeworth but that's another discussion.

I kind of see where it's coming from but don't let Edgeworth's aloof demeanor fool you. He's just as down bad for Phoenix. He charters multiple private jets for him, brings him along to Europe because he values his opinion on cases (even though he is disbarred at the time), constantly thinks of him when he's in trouble or lonely or confused, makes an effort to be involved in his life and goes along with all of his schemes. Sometimes even egging Phoenix on when he gets another crazy (and smart!!) idea.

"Nice Save, Partner!"

For anybody who isn’t familiar with Marcel Proust, he’s famous for 2 things:

- his long-ass books

- his even longer-ass sentences.

I remember that one typical creative writing task we were given in class was: “write a single sentence on a full page, Proust-like.”

His sentences are long as hell, but he’s a master at this craft, meaning that those sentences could be an entire chapter-long, and you would still understand what’s going on in that single sentence.

But, he’s pretty much the reason why French authors writing in English get regular “cut that sentence down” notes. 😂 We’ve been too used to long sentences.