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please do not ask me what my plans for the future are, im quite literally still not convinced that i am even a real person

but that's beyond the scope of this post

downloading my pdfs and epubs so i can always never read them

Being a flop changed my life. The world is not my oyster, I am glowing. I walked into a pole this morning. There's very little I wouldn't do for $1,000

"you can't call yourself a real cinephile if" aaaargh who calls themselves that!! why must everything sound like a diagnosis!! just enjoy movies and shut up!!

"if you are a cinephile and you enjoyed the odyssey (2026) here are hidden gems for you to enjoy: portrait of a lady in fire (2019)" you are just saying whatever at this point aren't you!!

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

recent epidemic of adaptations that take lots of liberties with the source material and also, separately, are bad. but then if you say "this is bad" you get hit with "you're just being a source material purist and you don't understand the vision"...like. well actually I think it rules when people do new and different things with classic works. I just think these particular new and different things suck ass.

and my take today is that framing misogynistic writing as an "inability to write female characters" subconsciously takes away most of the blame, implying that women are an alien creature compared to men and that it is no fault of the writer because it's out of their skill set. it's not an inability, not a lack of expertise, it's the simple refusal to consider women as individual people and give them the same depth and grace that comes easily to the writer when they write male characters. it's not that christopher nolan, stephen king, james cameron (and frankly anyone using the argument, both professional and hobbyist; yes, that includes fanfic writers) etc can't write women, it's that they just won't. at that point in time it is a conscious decision driven by the laziness to unpack their misogynistic biases, and should be addressed as such