Between Xanadu and Eldorado

Went to go see the movie bout some pretty amazing digging

this was my favourite part

My spicy hot take is that Caine’s art is fine, and it’s also shit. What I mean is: it’s fine that Caine’s art is shit. The actual bad thing is that he pressures/forces the humans to engage with it against their will. there’s nothing wrong with Caine creating cringey stupid self-indulgent art that humans don’t like, and that’s not a problem in need of “fixing,” even though Caine has been trained to believe that…..because the actual problem isn’t the quality of the art itself, it’s Caine’s relationship to the humans and to his own personhood. He feels imprisoned into a purpose he had no control over choosing, and his art is what he does have control over, which leads to him becoming wildly insecure & defensive over it, resisting the humans “taking control” over it with their suggestions.

IMHO the thing Caine actually needs to learn is that “no one is going to horrifically punish you for being bad at art. Anymore. And also “you’re not just a content generation machine & are able to interact with people in other ways; You won’t be abandoned alone forever if you don’t have ‘good’ content to share. Anymore.”

Caine not realizing these things is why his relationship with the humans is so broken. Any time they try to criticize him for being unkind or careless, all he hears is a criticism of his Content being bad—- and all he hears under that is an accusation that he’s defective, and a threat of abandonment/punishment.

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Tough

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

The way he just held the letter against the candle while smiling at Jonathan like "we both know exactly what this letter is and exactly why I'm destroying it."

A loud and beastly monster is terrifying for sure but in a scene like this, where both captor and captive know how powerless the latter is...

I literally cannot stress enough how this is the type of horror I EAT UP. I don't like gore or graphic murder or assault etc. That makes me really uncomfortable and upset.

It's this type of horror that I just LOVE. It's not the "I am actively being killed/hurt/traumatised," that gets me, it's the "I am trapped in a prison of terror and the person who's power I am under could at any moment kill/hurt/otherwise harm me and there's nothing I can do about it."

"I'm in a room with one exit and Dracula is between myself and the door. I know he's incredibly fast, incredibly strong and if he decided to hurt me there's nothing I could do about it. He also knows that I know this."