like to my understanding the root cause of everything going wrong right now is the Disney deal going south and I don't think the Disney deal was his idea nor do i think it going poorly was necessarily his fault. yes he could have made a better 2.5 seasons of dr who but the most Reviled part of it (Reality War ending) happened because Disney was refusing to commit to a third season. so uh. yeah.

i don't think this is a story with a clear individual villain tbh like i don't blame Disney for pulling out as clearly they anticipated this being a more profitable venture than it was and I don't blame the BBC for entering into the Disney Devil's Bargain in the first place as clearly they were financially struggling to make the show. im not really convinced RTD doing a better job would have salvaged the situation.

korrasami is so funny because it seriously is the most ass ship of all time, like they literally have barely any chemistry or alone time or even a developed friendship for most of the show but people will get REALLY mad at you for pointing this out because its historical i guess

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

Girl who tf was the Boss!!!!

Just gonna take a moment to remember that period in 2012 ish where a bunch of mutuals got really into the Dwayne the rock johnson kids film "the Tooth Fairy", where he plays a football player who has to become a fairy for reasons, all because it starred Stephen Merchant and they were all really into Wheatley in Portal 2

Fandoms today just dont do it like they did in 2012

read a couple cozy mysteries the last couple weeks which is a genre i haven't really touched despite reading a lot of mysteries. learned that i don't like cozy mysteries lollllllll.

friend of mine and coworker at the library is a big fan of cozy mystery (also cozy romance, cozy fantasy, etc.) and it's very interesting to talk about genre tendencies and tropes with her as an avid reader of pretentious grimdark tomes #mytomes. anyway she says that a very common trope in cozy mystery is to have the murder victim be unsympathetic so you don't feel too sad about them dying which is somehow more unsettling to me than reading about fictional people getting murdered period. and cozies also usually avoid Gritty Real World Issues like sexual violence or domestic violence so by "unsympathetic murder victim" I mean like...a grumpy old codger. Something about like...welcome to our town full of nice sweet people who bake muffins and knit and then someone gets murdered but oh welp! it's a mean old dude with no friends so it's not THAT sad. This somehow feels dystopian to me.

on the subject I obviously don't think writing about murder in fiction is necessarily exploitative or bad and I do read murder mysteries but I do think it's very sociologically interesting how differently sexual violence is treated in fiction/by readers than other types of violence. like the entire existence of a genre of cozy mystery that centers on homicide (even if it typically avoids graphic descriptions of violence) while completely eschewing depictions of sexual or gendered motivations for homicide. I think also of the way that ASOIAF fandom tends to be much more critical of depictions of sexual violence than murder and war crimes both in terms of criticizing its inclusion in the series in the first place and in terms of whether characters who perpetrate violence are seen as redeemable or sympathetic. I think this largely stems from the fact that sexual violence feels real and immediate to readers esp female readers and war and murder feels much more remote. But I think there's this false understanding of separateness there and also a belief that no one in the prospective audience could have also been affected by other types of violence. Like obviously it is less common by several orders of magnitude but I personally know several people who have parents or siblings that were murdered. I'm probably not articulating this well but there's something very othering about this seeming perspective that murder is a fictional dramatic plot point while sexual assault is a real world trigger.

so many people adding to that to be like “the distinction between Adult and Childrens films… well… heh… no one knows… its just too nebulous… they have the exact same quality and subject matter i guess you’ll just have to watch Kung Fu Panda and see if it speaks to you” like. no actually the distinction seems quite clear and even easy. if i’m wondering if a movie is made for children, i ask myself: “did the people who made this movie make it for children?” if the answer is yes, it is in fact for children, and not for me, an adult

Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use